I virkeligheden vidste Bush senior, at han ville blive fanget i et hængedynd, og at Saddams fald ville medføre etniske og religiøse sammenstød, der ville være umulige at styre udefra.
In fact, Bush Senior knew that he would get bogged down in a quagmire, that the fall of Saddam Hussein would lead to ethnic and religious confrontations that could not be managed from outside.