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Newsfilter, I just couldn't help it.

elwoodwiles — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:58:34 -0800

The first President Bush has told his son that hopes of peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with Iraq were not backed by international unity. via ~~fox news~~ Times Online.

owillis — Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:43:41 -0800

A Blast from the Past. In 1998, George Bush, Sr. explains why Saddam was not removed in the Gulf War: "Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome."

TiggleTaggleTiger — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:23:59 -0800

Something about "fighting your own battles" prevented my Dad from doing stuff like this for me when I was a kid.