Having said that, Citizens of this United States have not had to experience war except for 9/11 and the Civil War. I, am a veteran proud of that. Our citizens do not know or understand what has taken place and needs to take place. It all takes time and patience. We do not need career politicians using Iraq and Afghanistan for political gain.
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My first profession. The United States Marine Corps. Retired

In their cowritten 1998 book, “A World Transformed” George Bush the Elder and Brent Scowcroft discussed regime change in Iraq:

Trying to eliminate Saddam [in 1991], extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guidelines about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in ‘mission creep’, and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs… Would have have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, there was no viable ‘exit strategy’ we could see, violating another of our principles… Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different – and perhaps barren – outcome.”.
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