[Fiji Hill]

At some point even the staunchest apologists for the Bush family will probably admit that the U.S. was on the wrong side in the first Gulf War in 1990.

I'm hardly an apologist for the Bush family, but Bush did the right thing in 1990. Had he not intervened, Sadddam would not only have had Kuwait's oil, but he would have likely perpetrated further acts of aggression as he tortured to death tens of thousands of Kuwaitis. Bush's only mistake was in not using the occasion to take Saddam out.

[Alberta's Child]

I'm suggesting that the U.S. might be better off today if Saddam Hussein invaded Saudi Arabia and overthrew the Saudi royal family ... and then the U.S. cut a deal with him.

Bush's only mistake was in not using the occasion to take Saddam out.

Hardly a "mistake," as recent events in Iraq have shown. His own Secretary of Defense was advising against that. Unfortunately, that same guy became the Vice President in the second Bush administration and forgot everything he was saying back in the early 1990s.