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11-13-2007, 01:49 PM #1OPSenior Member
Military Reporter Recalls Bush's Objections To Iraq Invasion On A Previous Veteran's
Military Reporter Recalls Bush's Objections To Iraq Invasion On A Previous Veteran's Day [align=left] Joe Strupp
Editor & Publisher
Tuesday November 13, 2007[/align]
NEW YORK Sig Christenson, a founding member of Military Reporters and Editors who has worked five assignments in Iraq since the war began, reached back some 10 years for a Veteran's Day piece that noted President George Bush's early opposition to an Iraq invasion.
Christenson, who covers the military for the San Antonio (Tex.) Express-News, penned the piece for Sunday's paper that cited Bush's comments on Veteran's Day 1997 as governor of Texas. He pointed to Bush's defense of his father's decision during the Gulf War not to remove Saddam Hussein.
"There are a lot of Americans (who say), 'Why didn't you go get him?'" Bush told the Express-News back in 1997, according to Christenson. "Well, I'm confident that losing men and women as a result of sniper fire inside of Baghdad would have turned the tide of public opinion very quickly," Bush added.
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Bush said efforts to ferret out Saddam from his many Baghdad hideouts would have transformed the battle from a desert conflict to an unpopular "guerrilla war," Chistenson recalled.
He added: "Neither Bush nor his son expressed regret in the 1997 interviews over the failure of U.S. forces to pursue and destroy the Iraqi army's Republican Guard."
Christenson observed: "That Veterans Day, Bush said efforts to ferret out Saddam from his many Baghdad hideouts would have transformed the battle from a desert conflict to an unpopular 'guerrilla war.' A decade later, proponents of the Iraq war, including President Bush and his father, dismiss those reservations, saying the 9-11 terrorist attacks forced the conflict."
Christenson added that White House spokesman Blair Jones told him Friday: "Since that time this nation experienced one of the most horrific moments in our history â?? the attacks on September 11, 2001. As the president has said many times, one of the lessons learned from that day is that we have to take emerging threats seriously. We have to deal with them before they fully materialize."
Full article here.pisshead Reviewed by pisshead on . Military Reporter Recalls Bush's Objections To Iraq Invasion On A Previous Veteran's Military Reporter Recalls Bush's Objections To Iraq Invasion On A Previous Veteran's Day Joe Strupp Editor & Publisher Tuesday November 13, 2007 NEW YORK Sig Christenson, a founding member of Military Reporters and Editors who has worked five assignments in Iraq since the war began, reached back some 10 years for a Veteran's Day piece that noted President George Bush's early opposition to an Iraq invasion. Rating: 5
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11-13-2007, 03:41 PM #2Senior Member
Military Reporter Recalls Bush's Objections To Iraq Invasion On A Previous Veteran's
Originally Posted by pisshead
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11-13-2007, 03:49 PM #3Senior Member
Military Reporter Recalls Bush's Objections To Iraq Invasion On A Previous Veteran's
Originally Posted by Innominate
PC :smokin:
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11-13-2007, 04:06 PM #4OPSenior Member
Military Reporter Recalls Bush's Objections To Iraq Invasion On A Previous Veteran's
Originally Posted by PharmaCan
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11-13-2007, 04:43 PM #5Senior Member
Military Reporter Recalls Bush's Objections To Iraq Invasion On A Previous Veteran's
Allow me to rephrase, "Not enough people know..." :stoned:
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