Yes. I will never forget visiting my Dad in Chicago and on the news, they had a list of the young Americans killed in the war, scrolled on the screen. Some of them had gone to my high school. It was heartbreaking.
So much precious American blood spilled. And yes, innocent Iraqis killed as well...I am not an expert in world politics, etc., but what did this actually accomplish?
I quote from Newsweek issue of May 1992, our President’s view of Bush, Sr:
“Ronald Reagan is not called the Great Communicator for nothing. In one brief sentence last week, the ex-president neatly summed up his view of George Bush: “He doesn’t seem to stand for anything,” Reagan reportedly told friends. The former president later denied ever making the remark, first published in The Washington Post, but in case anyone doubted his true feelings Reagan then refused to be seen with the president in public. He skipped a Bush fund-raiser in Los Angeles and barred the press from his house when Bush came calling.”