Bush's father foresaw costs of Iraq war

[Kadie]

Bush's father foresaw costs of Iraq war

By GEORGE GEDDA, Associated Press


Last Updated: August 25, 2004, 09:21:00 AM PDT


WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.

"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."

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[havocmom]

1. Almost believe half of what Dimson does is to annoy his old man

and the other half is to try and get the old man to love him.

Tragic when dysfunctional families work their problems on the whole friggin world.

My old granny used to say, "You pay for what you need, whether you buy it or not." Her theory is certainly proved out when one considers mental health care and family counseling in America.