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In iraq #1 we stayed within u.n. mandates, limited our response, went home after kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing shiites and kurds to be butchered and not going to baghdad when the road was open and the dictator tottering. in iraq #2 we removed the tyrant at less cost than the liberation of kuwait during the earlier war, stayed on to ensure freedom and fair representation for various groups - and are being castigated for either using too little force to ensure needed order or too much power that stifles indigenous aspirations and turns popular opinion against us.
-Victor Davis Hanson
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In Iraq #1 We Stayed Within U.n.

Victor Davis Hanson
In iraq #1 we stayed within u.n. mandates, limited our response, went home after kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing shiites and kurds to be butchered and not going to baghdad when the road was open and the dictator tottering. in iraq #2 we removed the tyrant at less cost than the liberation of kuwait during the earlier war, stayed on to ensure freedom and fair representation for various groups - and are being castigated for either using too little force to ensure needed order or too much power that stifles indigenous aspirations and turns popular opinion against us.
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