bush senior sounds prescient in this article at memoryhole (from /.): "Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome." . . . never mind the whole creepy this-has-been-removed-from-time-magazine's-web-site issue. . .