1997 Article Quotes Bush's Opposition To Iraq Invasion

Editor & Publisher :

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.

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Comments

[po]

Alright, all you 'investigative journalists' out there . . . riddle me this . . . why does it take 10 years (and thousands of lives) for someone to find this little ditty? Just curious.

Oh, and W ain't liberated anything but his VP's stock options.

[peterg76]

Neocon 'morals' are a function of *who* is doing something, not *what* they are doing. Little George was opposed to an invasion where Bill Clinton could take the credit.

[fact finder]

Nuff said.

[Marlyn]

Well, that illustrates how flexible the Bush family is.

[sgtjiggs]

Bush has won two wars, deposed and captured a brutal dictator, destroyed the base of an international terrorist organization, and has begun to build the only functioning democracy in the Middle East other than Israel.

He is probably the most interesting man in the world.

[Tom95134]

This was obviously before he had Dick Cheney's hand shoved up his ass to pull the string attached to Bush's jaw.

[robertlockwoodmills]

Richard Clarke and Paul O'Neill both said that the decision to invade Iraq was made before 9/11, based on their own direct knowledge.

The question follows, "So what transpired between 1994 (when Cheney said invading Baghdad was a bad idea), and 1997 (when Bush said it)?" No doubt the answer would be in the minutes of Cheney's top-secret energy conference in 2001, if such minutes exist. Most likely they've been shredded by now.

[white mende man]

Yes it’s true, some people grow older and wiser some grow older and senile.

[TrouserTrout]

Don't pick on poor Bush. He doesn't know what in the hell he's doing. He's simply the simpleton pawn used by the neocons to destroy the world.

[MajorKong]

Rumsfeld wanted to attack Iraq instead of Afghanistan after 9/11. Never mind that Bin Laden happened to be in Afghanistan. "We have good targets in Iraq, we don't have good targets in Afghanistan."

That's like the guy looking for his car keys across the street from where he lost them "Because the light's better over here".

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

9/11 was a false flag psyop, but Bush reading My Pet Goat upside didn't get the memo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNsSn6D3CP4
9/11 Truth vs Mainstream Media

[mikelartist]

I suggest all the neocon pundits lay off the meth, the oxy and the booze. It is killing their memory, short term and long term.

Thanks for the 600 billion soon to be trillion dollar "mistake" Mr Bush.

[WARisEVIL]

Amazing how 19 Arab hijackers made you Americans lose your privacy and freedom.

I guess that OBL was smarter than we thought.

[progresemulo]

Yeah, but Clinton was president. Clinton didn't stop 9/11, so he couldn't have led a successful invasion.

[godlessclif]

That was before Bush became a neocon puppet.