“Sooner or later, Mr. Bush argued, sanctions would force Mr. Hussein's generals to bring him down, and then Washington would have the best of all worlds: an iron-fisted Iraqi junta without Saddam Hussein.”

—  Thomas Friedman

The World; A Rising Sense That Iraq's Hussein Must Go, New York Times, July 7, 1991, 2008-01-13 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEFDC1530F934A35754C0A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all,

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