[US Navy Vet]

George HW Bush in 1991.

[mrs ippi]

“George HW Bush in 1991”
There is wisdom in your opinion. We all remember befuddlement when Bush and his advisors pulled out without finishing the job . It was irony to hear in 2001 , ten years after “Desert Storm”, that there were “ WMD” and bad things going on in Iraq. If that had been the case — why do we bring it up 10 years after we had an army there. ? Iraq had nothing to do with 911. In deed, Sadam had destroyed the WMD after 1991. We were imposing a “no fly” zone over Iraq that was never sanctioned by the UN (Look it up)and was called “illegal” by the General Secretary.
I guess what you are saying is that we would have saved $3 trillion dollars and thousands of dead and wounded if bush one has finished it. I agree.

[Theoria]

The Sec. of Defense during the first GW, Dick Cheney has a pretty obvious position at the time:

'Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place? That’s a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it — eastern Iraq — the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you’ve got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey.