(Financial Times/New York Times) Gerard Baker - The sense that the U.S. failed to complete the task in 1991 is reinforced by the impression that the current Bush administration - many of whose top foreign policymakers were participants in the first Iraq conflict - is animated by a desire to settle old scores. Several figures acknowledge that had crucial moves been made then, the U.S. would not now be preparing for a new war.
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