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Prophecy fulfilled
Christian Century, Jan 23, 2007
PROPHECY FULFILLED: James Baker, former secretary of state and cochair of the Iraq Study Group, says he used to be asked often why the first Bush administration didn't topple Saddam Hussein at the end of the 1991 Gulf War. Among other reasons, he would explain, was that "if Saddam were captured and his regime toppled, American forces would still have been confronted with the specter of a military occupation of indefinite duration to pacify a country and sustain a government in power.
The ensuing urban warfare would surely have resulted in more casualties to American GIs than the [Gulf] war itself, thus creating a political firestorm at home." Baker says he no longer gets asked that question (from his memoir Work Hard, Study ... and Keep Out of Politics! quoted in the New York Review of Books, January 11).
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