Sunday, August 31, 2003

More on the assassination of al-Hakim from Riverbend and Salam Pax. 11:32:00 PM    comment () From stanleyscoop: "We should not march into Baghdad . . . . To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero . . . assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability." -- Former President, George Bush, in his 1998 book A World Transformed, co-authored with Brent Scowcroft, Random House. [End the War on Freedom] Obviously the older Bush had a better grasp on reality than his son. 9:12:21 PM    comment ()

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