I could not have said it better Mr. Vice. On April 15, 1994 you explained to an interviewer why Daddy Bush did not roll on to Baghdad after our global military quickly pushed Saddam's fifth rate army out of Kuwait. You were not in charge then, so you dutifully backed your boss' decision not to occupy Iraq. The terms you used were starkly prescient. Removing Saddam's government would probably cause "pieces of Iraq to fly off" into the control of neighbors. You even used the Q word ("quagmire") to describe the situation in which American occupation forces would find themselves post Saddam. And finally you said removing Saddam was not worth "many more dead Americans".
How power changes one's perspective. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY