[swilhelm73]

A pretty good article, BUT...one serious problem near the end;

I did questioning the stated reasons for invading Iraq -- weapons of mass destruction and Hussein's links to Osama bin Laden. This was stupid of me, but human nature nonetheless

Neither was the primary reason we went to war. Specifically, Hussein was in violation of the terms he agreed to, to end the first Gulf War - the vaunted UN resolutions he was breaking.

Breaking the terms of an earlier peace treaty is perhaps the oldest casus belli known to man.

[leprechaun9]

The Iraq war was terminated by a CEASE FIRE, not by a PEACE TREATY!

Some refer to the present Coalition activity in Iraq as Gulf War II. I believe that the Coalition, through the leadership of President Bush, is bringing the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in the early 1990's, to a conclusion. It is the same war!