IT HARD TO BLUFF YOU WAY OUT OF A WAR (BUT WE COULD HAVE)
As we, our country, still stunned by 9-11, contemplated the situation involving Iraq evolving into a threat. We were seeing them as a country led by a dictator strong enough to get away with gassing his neighbors to the North, killing thousands just to get them to march in line to his programs, and to conform to his country. This was a short time after being Iraq had been defeated and forced back into their own area after Kuwait.
We were busy trying to get the U.N. to get sanctions against their movement toward nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. (We later found out that the agreemnt we were seeking could not find willing hands to support our sanctions.) Had we applied that preassure the Iraq situation, Hussein would have blinked and the regime change would have been done. The failure of our allies, caused by trade and other outrite bribes, to support President Bush in his hope for peacefull solution caused the plan to fail and military solution became iminent.
I remember thinking at the time, how much like a good poker game all this was playing out. Everyone knew it would be easy to take Saddam out but no one wanted to lose their end of the graft. So it was left up to the Power with the concience. Had everyone held firm Hussein would have given in to the power and strength of number. Blinking started a war. If handled George Bushes way there most likely would not have been a war.
The worlds failure to stand with us un this issue produce the following work:
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