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   From: soxfan@SOXROCK.com   
      
   "Spike"  wrote in message   
    You're implying that Saddam Hussein made George H. W. Bush look like a   
   jackass? How so? Tried to kill him (and failed), yes. Jackass?   
      
      
           bush sr. knew........   
   From 1998, on why he didn't "finish" Gulf War I:   
      
   "Had we gone into Baghdad -- we could have done it, you guys could have done   
   it, you could have been there in 48 hours -- and then what? Which  sergeant,   
   which private, whose life would be at stake in perhaps a  fruitless hunt in   
   an urban guerilla war to find the most-secure dictator in  the world? Whose   
   life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief  because I,   
   unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the  stated   
   mission, and said we're going to show our macho? We're going into  Baghdad.   
   We're going to be an occupying power -- America in an Arab land --   
   with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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