Vigilante
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Vigi 10475723It doesn't matter what YOU think, it matters that Iraq shot down our drone, and there were, according to the article I posted 32 OTHER TIMES of contact with our planes...more than enough in any SANE PERSONS MIND, to go back and finish a war that should have been finished under that wimp, #41, who made the mistake of listening to Colon Bowel!
You call it "finishing a war" based on one "shot down drone" that was violating Iraqi air space. If it was finishing the 1991 First Gulf War why did Bush43 need to go to the UN and request that they disarm Iraq peacefully as that was to be Bush's preferred choice? It makes no sense that it was a continuation of Operation Desert Storm. Bush would not need the AUMF of Oif what you believe we're true.
Dick Cheney:
- I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we we're going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force because I do not believe he would wait in the Presidential Palace for us to arrive. I think we'd have had to hunt him down. And once we'd done that and we'd gotten rid of Saddam Hussein and his government, then we'd have had to put another government in its place. What kind of government? Should it be a Sunni government or Shi'i government or a Kurdish government or Ba'athist regime? Or maybe we want to bring in some of the Islamic fundamentalists? How long would we have had to stay in Baghdad to keep that government in place? What would happen to the government once U.S. forces withdrew? How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable? I think it is vitally important for a President to know when to use military force. I think it is also very important for him to know when not to commit U.S. military force. And it's my view that the President got it right both times, that it would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq.
- At the Washington Institute's Soref Symposium, April 29, 1991 [1]
- 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.... 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.
- Because if we had gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. It would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over and took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world. And if you take down the central government in Iraq, you could easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off. Part of it the Syrians would like to have, the west. Part of eastern Iraq the Iranians would like to claim. Fought over for eight years. In the north, you've got the Kurds. And if the Kurds spin loose and join with Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. The other thing is casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact that we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had, but for the 146 Americans killed in action and for the families it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad and took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein was, how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? And our judgment was not very many, and I think we got it right.
Bush41 got it right.
Go to the CORRUPT U.N. where Saddam was paying Koffi Annan, France, Germany, and Russia at the time BILLIONS from the OIL FOR FOOD program! It would never have passed, and SOMETHING needed to be done. I see you still OCDing about my continued bitch slapping your dumb ass, now go research what I just wrote, and bring back your bullshit!