In his memoirs, “A World Transformed,” written five years ago, George Bush, Sr. 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 and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible … We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, 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 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.”
Follow up to an article I sent out in which a fed-up citizen suggested that America should change its national symbol to the condom:
My status now?
F***in’ God Damned Independent (in keeping with the sex motif)
To paraphrase Michael Moore, the Repubs and Dems should just become one large party that represents the interests of the greedy rich (notice I qualify my namecalling), and that will pave the way for Americans to create a party that stands for the needs of the working class. Or anyone who reallys earns one’s money, no matter how much.
D and I are vacationing in Barcelona right now.
I wasn’t in the US when Schwarzebanger got elected, thank Yahweh. But it was all over the news in this continent, mostly serving as the butt end of lots of jokes ridiculing the American system of powermongering. Again, speaking of marrying sex with government, the groper won. And they gave Slick Willy such a hard time. Aaaah, ye of little attention spans.
