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And so it begins

From the quotes section of the latest Library Juice newsletter (recommended):

"We should not march into Baghdad. . . . To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero . . . assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability." - George Herbert Walker Bush, in his 1998 book _A World Transformed_

The world is now utterly changed.