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a prescient prediction .....

The time was five years ago, to be exact, and in these memoirs, titled "A World Transformed," the former President, George Herbert Walker Bush, father of George W. Bush, wrote the following to explain why he didn't go after Saddam Hussein at the end of the gulf War:

 

"Trying to eliminate Saddam ... would have incurred incalculable human & political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad & in effect, rule Iraq ...

 

There was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see, violating another of our principles.  Furthermore, we had been consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in & 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."

 

As one commentator said in response to this prescient prediction: "If only his son could read."

liars & their great lies .....

A detailed chronology of the lies repeatedly told by members of the Bush administration to justify the war of aggression mounted against Iraq, as prepared by Representative Henry A. Waxman of the US House of Representatives. 

 

Iraq On The Record

and then there are the hypocrites .....

‘As disingenuous as the Administration's claims that Iraq had WMDs is the flimsy claim by Democratic lawmakers that they were somehow duped into voting for the war. The fact is that Iraq posed no threat to the United States in 2003 any more than it did in 1998 when President Clinton bombed Baghdad. John Kerry and his colleagues knew that.  

 

The Democrats didn't need false intelligence to push them into overthrowing Saddam Hussein's regime. It was their policy; a policy made the law of the land not under George W. Bush, but under President Bill Clinton when he signed the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, formally initiating the process of regime change in Iraq.  

 

Manipulated intelligence is but a small part of a bigger, bipartisan 15-year assault on Iraq's people. If the Democrats really want to look at how America was led into this war, they need to go back further than the current president's inauguration. 

 

A 'Loyal Opposition' Won't End the War