On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:58:59 +0900, Michael Cash
<mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote:

>>The first one just halfheartedly tried to kill him because he followed
>>the advice of his Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney.

>>============================================================
>>Dick Cheney in a post-mortem on the first Gulf War at the Soref
>>Symposium, 4/29/1991:

>>I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I
>>think if we were 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.
>>=============================================================

>>What a difference 13 years makes.

>>What happened, Dickster? I guess he forgot.

>You haven't shown anything that indicates Bush41 attempted to capture
>Hussein or even had that as a goal.

I've tried to show that but for the good advice of Richard Cheney,
Bush Sr. may well have marched right on to Baghdad. But as Cheney so
intelligently pointed out that would have been an exercise in futility
and an unacceptable cost in casualties.

Well, Dick Cheney V1991 pointed that out anyway. We've got the new
RoboDick 2004 now who's totally updated and on a roll.

Raj