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Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Mar 7 13:55:48 PST 2003



>Well, Bush the Elder did get good grades at Yale, and was I believe,
>even a Phi Beta Kappa. Did that make him a superior president to
>his son?
>
>Jim F.

***** CounterPunch March 6, 2003

Pappy Bush's 1996 warning:

"War on Iraq would turn entire Arab world against us"

By Jason Leopold

Former President George Bush predicted in 1996 that if the United States were to engage in another war with Iraq, one aimed at overthrowing Saddam Hussein, the "entire Arab world would turn against us" and the U.S. would alienate its allies in the international community.

"To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero," Bush said in an interview with the BBC marking the five-year anniversary of the Gulf War....

<http://www.counterpunch.org/leopold03062003.html> ***** -- Yoshie

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