When did Iraq attack the United States? Israel?? Saudi Arabia? This is BIG news.
Read some history please.
Just how stunningly ignorant you are about the issue, stunningly. The Iraqi issue did not start with 2003. The US was invited in with the full conscience and asking by the United Nations in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in July of 1990.
All were attacked during the buildup to counter the invading force from going further on to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. The use of Scud rockets were directed at the US forces and some were killed when one hit a temporary barracks of the US Army. Scuds were also launched and landed at several places in Saudi Arabia and also in Israel.
We would have vanquished the major portion of the then retreating Iraqi armor, but that courageous “Colonel” General Powell (RitaX reference) couldn’t stomach the images of the Road to Basra just making the news that he convinced GHWB to pull “Stormin” Norman Schwartzkopf’s leash and stop the just about to commence obliteration of that force. The 24th Mechanized and the 82nd/101st Aviation Assault had them triple flanked on the road to Nasiriah and because of the courageous actions of that man who became the SoS for GWB, they got away to fight another day that resulted in us having to go back in and do it all over again.
So, with that little history lesson, do you care to revise and extend your remarks? But first, how about a little history lesson.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45404
http://armylive.dodlive.mil/index.php/2013/02/operation-desert-storm/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Gulf_War
http://www.warchronicle.com/iraq/news/timeline_two_wars.htm