Quote Of The Day

Here is another "Quote of the Day" that I found langering in the cyber backwaters of my draft folder. Just thought it was still timely and appropriate.............PEACE...........Scott




Quote Of The Day - "Trying to eliminate Saddam ...would have incurred incalculable human and political costs... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq ...there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see... 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." - President George H.W. Bush on operation Desert Storm.