Coming days. We understand the family the bush family will be congregating here. In the next couple days. There will be a private service held at st. Martin church. The church they attended for many years. Here together the same church barbaras life was remembered a couple blocks behind us here. And then President Bush will be flown to dc. Theres men before him of his stature have been. The public will be able to view him. Hell lie in state. And a Funeral Service at the national cathedral. Before he is again returned home here to texas. Then we will see the largers service the at st. Martin church. Which we can expect i would think to be something similar to what we saw for barbara bush. Of course on another scale. And then his body will be taken by motorcade to the president ial
hi library. In ledge station. An hour and a half from here. He will be laid to rest along barbara and their daughter. Who passed many years ago. You get the sense as neighbors here come out of their homes and
way that would not shake the world s economic markets, that would keep people calm. and so they cowrote a book today, scowcroft and book wrote a world transformed and they explained why they didn t brag about when the berlin wall came in, when they did not go into baghdad. it s important to know that scowcroft, baker and bush understood the limits of american intervention. they understood soft power and hard power. they knew the high cost of war and how many what dead soldiers really means. and they were able to build this incredible coalition, a model american history when we went into iraq in 1991 on how to bring nato along to the united nations, bring everybody in it with us. so he is going to be study, bush 41 is how a commander in chief
people, it would have been an iraqi problem. instead, he was taken out by us, and now in the eyes of much of the middle east and certainly in the eyes of many of the iraqis, it is our problem. is this current crisis and all of the bloodshed of the last 11 years, is that the reason behind the bush 41 administration, the first one, not pushing on to baghdad during the first gulf war? i mean, did you foresee this? that was one of the reasons. in fact, president bush and brent scowcroft wrote in the book a world transformed, that they were fearful that if we went in there and took him out in 91, that we would have ended up occupying it just as we have been occupying it for the last 11 years. and it would not have been in our interests to do so. we would have ended up with a mess that we are in. that was one of the reasons we did not go to baghdad. another reason we didn t go to baghdad is we wanted to have iraq remain as a bullwork against iranian aggressiveness. and in this op-ed