from his speech at Tufts University, about which Richard V. Allen, among lied his ass off.....
The next question comes from Aaron Markovitz Schwam who is an undergraduate student here. Mr. President, why is it that you elected not to follow through with support for the Kurdish and Shi'ite uprisings in Iraq following the first Gulf War? As we sit on the eve, or in the midst of another war, is this a decision that you regret?
A: Well, it wasn't a decision really. Here's the thing. We had a mission. And the mission was not to invade Iraq. It wasn't to kill Saddam Hussein. It wasn't to free the Kurds in the north, or the Shi'ites in the south. The mission was to end the aggression. And we tried to do it peacefully. And we tried to do it by diplomatically. And when that didn't work, we fought "the mother of all battles," as Saddam Hussein called it. It lasted one hour in the sands of Kuwait. And we came out, and we kept our word to the United Nations, and to our coalition partners.
But, if we had tried to go in there and then create just more instability in Iraq, I think it would have been very bad for the neighborhood, vis-a-vis Iran for example. And so, if there's a perception that we said, "You go and rise up and we'll help you," that's an erroneous perception. I did say, "I'd like to see the Iraqi people take care of their own problems," because frankly I, and most other leaders in -- well, all the leaders in the Gulf, and Mitterand and, I think, the Brits, certainly -- in Turkey and Mubarak all felt that the people from within would take care of Hussein. That he couldn't exist, you see. So, I was wrong in that. But, not wrong in going to continue the battle. And not wrong in taking military action that might destabilize Iraq in the center, and that very important center in the neighborhood there.
And so, there is this misperception, and I'm glad to have a chance to clear it up.he goes on to tell some great lies about US aid to Iraq (ag subsidies....read Iraqgate), then deflects, out of the blue, to Kissinger WRT India/Pakistan
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=bush%27s+father+warns+against+invading+iraqthe quote is almost at the very end, and is in the Q/A section, the most interesting part, except for some offhand comments in the body, about protestors, his big ugly goitergirl, and some funny non-sequiturs
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