State of Denial: Chapter 2...

"Had we gone into Baghdad - We could have done it. You guys (Gulf War veterans) could have done it. You could have been there in 48 hours. And then what? Which sergeant, which private, whose life would be at stake in perhaps a fruitless hunt in an urban guerrilla war to find the most-secure dictator in the world? 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 disasterous."
-George H. W. Bush speaking to Gulf War veterans at the Fort Myer Army base, February 28, 1999 (p. 11-12)

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This is a quotation from the book State of Denial by Bob Woodward. I will be quoting an excerpt from the book one chapter at a time until the November elections.