<<"From the brief time that we did spend occupying Iraqi territory after the war, I am certain that had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like the dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of the occupation. This is a burden I am sure the beleaguered American taxpayer would not have been happy to take on."
-- Norman Schwarzkopf on the first Gulf War, 1993 >>
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And think of how much worse the economy is now than it was then.
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