[SOC] now, the old news...

[Lloyd Lachow]

"From the brief time that we did spend occupying Iraqi
territory after the war, I am certain that had we
taken all of Iraq, we would have been like the
dinosaur in the tar pit we would still be there, and
we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs
of the occupation. This is a burden I am sure the
beleaguered American taxpayer would not have been
happy to take on."
Norman Schwarzkopf, from his 1993 autobiography, "It
Doesn't Take a Hero." 


"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 guerilla war, it could only plunge
that part of the world into ever greater instability."
George H.W. Bush, "A World Transformed," 1998 
 


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