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I hate to interrupt your selective information rant (you being all head up in your self righteous steam and all) but Congress had ratified a mutual defense treaty with Kuwait. That is why they didn’t have a military to speak of.

When Iraq rolled into Kuwait we were effectively in a war that Congress (following Kissinger’s stupid mechinations) had commited us to years before.

Herbert Walker Bush did intend to reneg on the agreement, but the terrified Saudi government provided Ted Turner’s nascent CNN with global transmitting cameras and personnel inside Kuwait to broadcast footage which politically cornered Bush into honoring our commitment.

Did you think that just because the press and the schools don’t discuss these factors that the people who went over there wouldn’t remember them? Or were you so clueless about the Middle East at the time that you weren’t really following what was going on?

Those are the only two possibilities.

... but Congress had ratified a mutual defense treaty with Kuwait.

I call B.S. on this. Please cite any evidence to support this statement. The U.S. would not have needed to go through the idiotic song and dance to get the U.N. involved if this was true.

That is why they didn’t have a military to speak of.

This would make your first part of this statement even more ludicrous. Signing a mutual defense treaty with a country that has no military is the height of irresponsibility.

Kuwait didn't need a mutual defense treaty with the U.S. for the same reason they didn't need a military. Countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia had already done a thoroughly effective job of buying influence in the U.S. directly -- to the point where the U.S. government remains a wholly-owned subsidiary of these royal families to this day.

Do you think it's just a coincidence that the U.S. has pissed away thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars in military campaigns that were undertaken on behalf of real estate investment partners of the Bush family?

I am aware of the situation in the Middle East at the time. I am also aware the president and Congress committed the nation to a war without the formal declaration of war required by the Constitution. The Constitution makes no provision for mutual defense treaties forcing the nation into war without the required Congressional action.