Reply #12: They weren't really such bad guys [View All]

[social_critic]

That roundtable was pretty good as US leaders go. They went, they saw, they conquered, AND THEY LEFT. The war didn't cost us so many lives, and it was popular with the plebe.

Their mistake was to allow Saddam to stay in place. Schwarzkopf blew it, he should have kept the troops in Iraq until he got a deal for the Iraqi Sunni generals running the Republican Guard to make the following deal:

1. Replace Saddam.
2. Return all the stuff they stole from Kuwait.
3. Don't attack, pay for attacks, or even bitch at other countries, including Israel.

and

4. Deposit in a Swedish Bank $20 billion US to be used to pay for claims against the Iraqi government for its violations of human rights subsequent to the signature of the agreement, agreeing that such lawsuits can be carried out in a Swedish arbitration hearing (Sweden is recognized as a pretty decent place to hold arbitrations).

If Bush daddy had done this, we would probably have avoided a lot of hassles, saved a lot of money, and Iraq would have had a much nicer dictatorship.