Every death in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion is the responsibility of one
misguided criminal; George W. Bush. Every apologist and defender of this
incompetent failure is complicit in his crimes to the extent that they encourage and enable his conduct of illegal, aggressive war. Denial and ignorance are prerequisites of supporters of Bush policies of death and destruction. Bush ignored the following and took his faithful and the Iraqi people down an avoidable route to despair, Many in America still don't recognize it....yet !
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"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in ‘mission creep,’ and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, there was no viable ‘exit strategy’ we could see, violating another of our principles. 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. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome."
George Herbert Walker Bush, A World Transformed, 1998
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