[Puppage]

'Weakling-in-Chief': Boston Globe Mocks Bush 41 for Not Taking Out Saddam in '91

The Globe needs to do a little research.

Taking out Saddam was NOT the goal of Desert Storm, it was to protect & aid Kwait.

Also, we were half way to Baghdad before we listened to the UN and turned around. Apparently, we can't win for lose'n when it comeS to the slimey left.

They think we should obey the useless UN mandates and when we do, they end up throwing back in our faces.

HOW I LOATHE THE LEFT

[mass55th]

The Globe will never admit that the UN was to blame for our not taking out Saddam in Desert Storm, and you'll never hear them condemn Colin Powell for his being against it back then as well. They conveniently forget all that stuff.

[roses of sharon]

For the left, history begins when they wake up in the morning.

[finnigan2]

"'Weakling-in-Chief': Boston Globe Mocks Bush 41 for Not Taking Out Saddam in '91
The Globe needs to do a little research.
Taking out Saddam was NOT the goal of Desert Storm, it was to protect & aid Kuwait."

- Yes, I remember that time in 1991 when Bush put together a coalition of Arab states specifically on the understanding that it was to get Saddam out of Kuwait. Once that happened, any move on Baghdad would have been beyond the UN mandate and would have lost him the support of the coalition.
I can still recall the Arab political spokesmen going on the MSM at the time saying that to go to Baghdad was unnecessary because Saddam had been so weakened by his defeat in Kuwait that he wouldn't last another six months before he would be overthrown in a coup. All we had to do was wait a bit and he would be gone.
They underestimated Saddam's ruthlessness in purging any possible opposition and holding on to power.

[Aquinasfan]

Also, we were half way to Baghdad before we listened to the UN and turned around. Apparently, we can't win for lose'n when it comeS to the slimey left.

And while you're looking up past issues of the Glob (circa 1990), you can look up the articles where they praised Cardinal Law, over and over again, for pursuing an "enlightened" course of psychiatric treatment for the priests who were suspected of molesting young boys.