An exchange on American policy towards Iraq:
>> Doug wrote about Saddam:
>>
>>> but it's clear the U.S. didn't want to depose him,
>>> only shorten his leash a bit.
>>>
>> [Seth Ackerman]
>>
>> Actually, they really do very much want to get rid of
>> Saddam, but they want to replace him with some clone from the
>> military, or perhaps a junta.
>>
> Well, this is what I had in mind, along with Bush's decision to stop
> the war before marching on Baghdad (Eugene Genovese's main
> reservation in voting for Bush in '92, by the way).
Didn't the Busher himself recently write that deposing Saddam Hussein
wasn't on the agenda -- only getting him out of Kuwait? I thought
deposing Saddam in favor of one of his military chiefs only became an
objective under Clinton, and then only recently...
--
Curtiss