This is a scan of an actual letter from Charles Taylor (R-NC) to a constituent. Here is the money paragraph.
To intervene militarily might so weaken Iraq that it would be invaded and partitioned by its neighbors as soon as we left the country. Such an event could involve the United States in an open ended commitment that would be a genuine quagmire in a part of the world that is rather alien to us.
Though the year was 1991, truer words were never spoken. And haven't been spoken since by Charles Taylor.