re: Glenn Beck's most profound message yet

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The guys who really got it right were George H.W. Bush and Brent Scrocroft. They wrote:

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- Trying to eliminate Saddam...would have incurred incalculable human and political costs.

-We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq.... there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles.

- Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. 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.

- Breaking up the Iraq state would pose its own destabilizing problems.

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Smart men.

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