To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability.
"According to the Press, in the months preceding the decision to go to war with Iraq, the Bush administration frequently exaggerated or distorted US Intelligence analysis in its campaign to cast Iraq as an evil and outlaw state according to federal documents and officials who have reviewed the intelligence."
-January 27th 1991
change the dates and switch a few words of this article around, and you've got current "news" about the president lying to start a war.
don't bother changing the names though- it is all the same players. or their spawn.
"we never said...Blah blah blah, we said blah Blah blah, Blah...there is a difference, blah!"
note how justifications used this time around were identified as lies in the early 90's...
it is a newspaper clipping split in two-
so read all the way down thru both.. then back up and down thru both again.
"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."
-- George H. W. Bush, A World Transformed 1998
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USA
OLD SKOOL
OCT 31, 2003 02:58 PM
maybe I'm splitting hairs, but doesn't occupation of a country mean installing a permanent presence?
There's no doubt that this whole Iraq situation was done with a wink and a nod and at best a paper-thin logic. But, I don't remember us saying that we had an interest in being a permanent part of governing Iraq.
It dosen't mean installing a permanent prescence. It means running the country for a period of time. We occupied japan for about seven years after WWII, and we are occupying Iraq and Afghanistan.
On the other hand,we have had a huge military base in Guantanamo for decades, but no one would accuse us of occupying Cuba.
yeah, but dubya was doing the right thing, even if he went against his daddy.. afterall, iraq had all of those weapons of mass distraction.. er, i mean, distruction! right!
..no, i don't much care for those men.
i can only think of one way to get rid of them in the next election- missy suicide for president! w00t!
ugh. I'm numb from thinking about it too much last year. The inevitable solution is that we pull out our troops because the death tolls will have reached critical mass. It's a shame its gonna take 500 + more soliders to die for a bad idea
The laundry list of contradictions between Bush and his daddy is long enough that I have chosen to pretend it isn't there, because it only proves that most of our recent presidents have been idiots.
evilannie said:
The laundry list of contradictions between Bush and his daddy is long enough that I have chosen to pretend it isn't there, because it only proves that most of our recent presidents have been idiots.
That doesn't sound like a great thing to ignore, to me.
r00kers
Nederland, CO
February 2003
OCT 30, 2003 07:48 PM