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From: spike@spike.spike
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:53:27 -0500, "PCameron"
wrote:
>
>"Spike" wrote in message
>news:flbkk0d7c5lsqo5v8l15rplumnev8otobk@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:42:01 GMT, "soxfan" wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"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:
>>
>> Stated objectives in Gulf War I were to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
>> Mission accomplished. Besides, it was entirely a UN operation.
>> Remember?
>>
>> Next?
>>
>
>Exactly. And if you care to read the following text that you ignored last
>time you will see that Bush Sr. was is a very intelligent man and understood
>that occupying Iraq would be a foolish move.
What does that have to do with whether Saddam Hussein made GHWB look
like a jackass or not?
Too bad Jr. fried his brain on
>cocaine.
>
>Next.
>
>> >"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."
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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