[Marxism] Bush Sr.: "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam"

["B. Castleberry" <bcastleberry1hsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From Library Journal:

The Case of the Disappearing Article
by Tony Greiner -- 4/15/2004
Commentary > Backtalk


On March 2, 1998, TIME magazine ran an article on the public's reaction
to President Clinton ordering air strikes against Iraq. "Selling the War
Badly" had a sidebar by George Bush Sr. and his National Security
Advisor, Brent Scowcroft. Titled "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam," the
sidebar, an excerpt from their book A World Transformed, laid out the
reasons Bush decided not to send forces on to Baghdad in the 1991 Gulf
War. This passage gives the gist:

Trying to eliminate Saddam…would have incurred incalculable human and
political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been
unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would
have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The
coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in
anger and other allies pulling out as well…. Going in and occupying
Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have
destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped
to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably
still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

The article remained on TIME's web site until spring 2003, shortly
before the current President ordered the attack on Baghdad to begin.
"The Memory Hole" (www.thememoryhole.org), a web site devoted to
preserving "lost" information, reported the article's removal from the
TIME site and posted a scanned version of the original. I was sure that
the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee (or
some such group) would raise a stink, but I didn't see anything. So,
this fall, I began looking into the matter myself.

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