George Herbert Walker Bush Quote On Iraq

10-30-3

"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."

George H. W. Bush, in his 1998 memoir A World Transformed


He was prescient, of course.

Unfortunately for the United States, his son was never that bright.