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And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth?

And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we’d achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.

All of a sudden you’ve got a battle you’re fighting in a major built-up city, a lot of civilians are around, significant limitations on our ability to use our most effective technologies and techniques.

Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place? You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq.

Now what kind of government are you going to establish? Is it going to be a Kurdish government, or a Shi’ia government, or a Sunni government, or maybe a government based on the old Baathist Party, or some mixture thereof? You will have, I think by that time, lost the support of the Arab coalition that was so crucial to our operations over there.

I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today, we’d be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.

2006-10-10 14:37:57 · 4 answers · asked by spire2000 2 in Politics & Government Military

Nope, it wasn't Bush Sr...

2006-10-10 15:20:32 · update #1

4 answers

Dick Cheney said it. We now know that the preservation of the Arab coalition was not as valuable as we thought it was. Look at Pakistani intelligence and Saudi support of 9/11. To his credit, I don't think many of us saw that coming, and a lot of us believed progress in the Palestinian states could be done through developing that Arab coalition.

2006-10-10 16:15:43 · answer #1 · answered by Big Blair 4 · 0 0

....and if you could hear the blood come gargeling forth from froth corrupted lungs, bitter as the cud of incurable sores on innocent tongues, my friend, you would not say with such high zest, to children ardent for some distant glory, the old lie " Dulce Et Decourm Est Pro Patria Mori "

...in Flanders fields the poppies grow beneath the crosses; row on row. .....

still I have a modicum of respect for the father of the " decider" .

2006-10-10 21:43:41 · answer #2 · answered by planksheer 7 · 0 0

George H. W. Bush. He was a doof but he at least listened to his advisers. Not at all like his son.

2006-10-10 21:42:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Lets see............could it be Billary or the self wounded hero scary Kerry.

2006-10-10 23:14:08 · answer #4 · answered by fatboysdaddy 7 · 0 0

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