NPR has a story on a head-scratching quote from then-Gov. George W. Bush that almost ran in a San Antonio Express News article. Bush reflected on why his father did not “take out” Saddam Hussein.
In the interview with the paper in 1997, Bush said that the consequences of killing Hussein — losing U.S. soldiers as the result of sniper fire — would “turn the tide of public opinion very quickly.”
The quote was published for the first time this week; it was not used in the original San Antonio Express News story because the reporter also interviewed former President George H.W. Bush, and he added the elder Bush’s remarks in the story at the expense of his son’s — seemingly innocuous — quote.
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