A game. Who said, "If we'd gone to Baghdad and got rid of Saddam Hussein — assuming we could have found him — we'd have had to put a lot of forces in and run him to ground someplace. He would not have been easy to capture. Then you've got to put a new government in his place, and then you're faced with the question of what kind of government are you going to establish in Iraq?"

"Is it going to be a Kurdish government, or a Shia government or a Sunni government? How many forces are you going to have to leave there to keep it propped up, how many casualties are you going to take through the course of this operation?"

Colin Powell, you say? James Baker? How about Dick Cheney (in an interview with the BBC in 1992 - back when he was still giving interviews to the BBC).

Many such gems in this little New York Times piece on the two generation of Bush's finding satisfaction in the capture of Saddam, who referred to George W. as "the son of the viper," and "little Bush."

Posted by Laura at December 16, 2003 12:51 AM