Dubya's Dad Warned Iraq Would Become Quagmire

[Nicholas_J]

Dubya's Dad Warned Iraq Would Become Quagmire
By GEORGE GEDDA

Not many people foresaw the postwar difficulties the administration has endured in Iraq. Of the few who did, two stand out, both lions of the Republican Party.
One was President George H.W. Bush. The other was his secretary of state, James A. Baker.

"Incalculable human and political costs" would have been the result, the senior Bush has said, if his administration had pushed all the way to Baghdad and sought to overthrow Saddam Hussein after the U.S.-led coalition ousted the Iraqi army from Kuwait during the Persian Gulf war in 1991.

"We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect rule Iraq," Bush wrote. "The coalition would have instantly collapsed. ... Going in and thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_5109.shtml


Its and oldie,but a goodie, and I hope not a dupe.

[pinkpops]

1. yeah but "9/11 changed everything" -

haw haw haw

[Gman]

2. They bristle at the word "quagmire"

by saying its "not that kind of war" (meaning Viet Nam). I like to ask, "then just how do you define 'quagmire'?"

[knowbody0]

3. quagmire

so did schwartzkoff (sp?)