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I just wonder if Bush43 will attend in place of his ailing father, who was Schwartzkopf’s CinC. Also Cheney.
They ran a great team.

Except Powell who was JCS - he can go bugger himself

When we look back at the original Gulf War in 1990 exactly what was accomplished?
Just think of all the propaganda imposed on this country to justify going to war because Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Remember the tag line "Saving the world for democracy", or something like that and Kuwait certainly was not a Democracy under any circumstances. The real basis for going to war was to save Saudi Arabia from being invaded by Iraq and their oil fields from being taken over by Saddam.
Now given what we know now would really have been a bad thing? Saudi Arabia is the biggest financier or world wide terrorism and either directly or indirectly helped fund bin Laden and 9-11. Read Anthony Summers book, “The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11”, on this very interesting details not fully made public.
Perhaps if we had let Iraq take out Saudi Arabia a number of problems would have been solved not that a lot of new ones would have been created.
A lot of food for thought.