Statement on the Strategic Defense Initiative
03/21/1991
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Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.
Our past efforts to secure Baghdad failed for two principal reasons: There were not enough Iraqi and American troops to secure neighborhoods...
Their solution is to scale back America's efforts in Baghdad or announce the phased withdrawal of our combat forces.
I made it clear to the prime minister and Iraq's other leaders that America's commitment is not open-ended. If the Iraqi government does not...