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Originally Posted by ASU2003
I'm still confused as to why George Bush #1 didn't capture or overthrow Saddam in 1991 and put him on trial? Was there some threat from Russia against going any further? Were they worried about Iran going to war with Iraq again?
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Bush Pere didn't go for regime change in Iraq because his advisers were against it:
"The notion that we ought to now go to Baghdad, and uh, somehow take control of the country strikes me as, as, and extremely, uh, serious one, in terms of what we'd have to do when we got there. You'd probably have to put some new government in place. It's not clear what kind of government that would be --how long you'd have to stay.
For the U.S. to get involved militarily, in determining the outcome of, uh, the struggle over whose going to govern in Iraq, strikes me as the classic definition of a quagmire."
--Dick Cheney, 1991
(mp3 <a href="http://movies.crooksandliars.com/cheney-quagmire-Iraq.mov">here</a>)