I daresay that applies to you too mark:
>"9/11 happened after this was published by the way. Why doesn't the author ask GB SR what he thinks now?"

Here we go again. 15 of the 17 hijackers from 9/11 were Saudis.
Please tell me how that translates to Iraq?

From the article: George Bush Senior states:
>"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. Iraqi soldiers and civilians could be expected to resist an enemy seizure of their own country with a ferocity not previously demonstrated on the battlefield in Kuwait.
Even if Hussein were captured and his regime toppled, U.S. forces would still have been confronted with the specter of a military occupation of indefinite duration to pacify the country and sustain a new government in power.
Removing him from power might well have plunged Iraq into civil war, sucking U.S. forces in to preserve order. Had we elected to march on Baghdad, our forces might still be there.''

So tell me, what was George Bush Junior THINKING?
That he was wiser than his father?