[lit-ideas] Guess who said this...
- From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:54:43 -0400
*Guess who said this:
*"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an
occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing
objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have
incurred
incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably
impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew
intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect,
rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs
deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under the
circumstances, there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating
another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously
trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War
world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United
Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international
response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the
invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying
power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically
different — and perhaps barren — outcome."
*/-President George H. W. Bush
from:
http://www.allhatnocattle.net/10-29-03_president_unresponsibility.htm
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