George W. Bush Quotes
The Gulf War was finished off properly. Make no mistake about it.
After defeating the Iraqi Army in the field, bush allowed them to keep their arms, did not take Baghdad, and removed the allied troops. Saddam Hussein then attacked his own dissidents and murdered them with the helicopters that we let him keep and stayed in power. Bush’s son, two decades later, then started the 2nd Iraq war and deposed Saddam.
George W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (Republican, TX), CNN Interview with Paula Zahn, August 30, 2004
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His balanced judgment and concern for American Casualties changed during the Iraq War over a decade later where he insisted on taking steady American casualties even after Saddam had been deposed and American troops were in the middle of a sectarian civil war.
Ever since the end of WWII, no major war has been fought where there has been a classic victory where one nation is conquered by another and there is a surrender. Many of the wars have been fought against non-state actors or our war aim is a regime change or the establishment of a more friendly government. We have no desire to occupy the countries generally, and there is often no one “in charge” of the enemy who can even surrender. Bruce was referring to the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War. In each case, despite the lack of a surrender document, it can be said that America won both of these wars initially and then had great trouble with the occupation, the nation building, and keeping the peace. In Iraq and Afghanistan we suffered almost no casualties in the initial invasions. The occupation and “peace” is where we suffered almost all of our casualties.
Haig was one of those who thought that President George W. Bush should have continued the war and occupied the country and the cities to eliminate Saddam. His own son, George W. Bush, later invaded Iraq and did occupy the country and eliminate Saddam, but the cost was so high that few Americans thought it was worth the cost in American casualties and money. The younger Bush proved how wise his father and Colin Powell had been. See {622764}.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
