So... In trying to seperate and DISTINGUISH THE DIFFERENCE between "Neo-Con Carnage" and "Red Blooded Conservative American Values"... I've been doin' a li'l readin'up.


Here's an excerpt from the 1998 publication "A World Transformed"... by Brent Scowcroft and George Herbert Walker Bush.

    "Trying to eliminate Saddam...would have incurred incalculable human and political costs... We would have been forced too 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 unilateraly exceeding the United Nation's mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to agression 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."

'Nuff said.
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