Interesting articles on the Iraq thingy (you know that's what Bush is calling it):
"If Saddam lived for another 10 years, would he be able to kill as many Iraqis and destroy as much of Iraq as the Americans have done in one year?" -
Muammar el-Qaddafi (thanks to Carlos for the interesting Times article)
And while we are doing articles........Here's another good quote:
"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 self-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." - George H.W. Bush
Conspiracy theory of the week.........
It seems the US Ministry Of Information is trying to re-write history ala
1984. This article originally was a
Time Magazine article but now it is no longer accessable....Even in it's
Table of contents for that Issue the article is missing.... Fortunately this article can still be found on web sites....
Check it out here's the
scan of the missing article.
