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Originally Posted by CalgaryCowboy
This is an interesting discussion. I believe if the US does leave now there will be a civil war at least even more violence. It is ironic that the US now must take on the role of Sadam (with different tactics) of trying to keep the country together and put down extremists.
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As per George Bush Sr.
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Bush later explained that he did not give the order to overthrow the Iraqi government because it would have "incurred incalculable human and political costs... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq".
In explaining to Gulf War veterans why he chose not to pursue the war further, he said, "whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we're going to show our macho? We're going into Baghdad. We're going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous."
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