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I disagree. Klinton did not run on "Its the foreign policy, stupid" and Bush I only lost because of one man - Ross Perot. The problems we are facing today with Saddam have to do with liberals in the State Department and the UN. Our tanks were 100 miles from Baghdad with nothing in between them but small desert lizards and a couple of village goats. But the UN signed the cease fire which ended hostilities. Know the modern history. Go back and look at the hypocritical Madelaine Albright's of 1991 who were screaming on TV not to invade Iraq, but years later blamed their failures on Bush I for not invading Iraq.

You might want to check into tapes from both History and Discovery Channels (both extremely fair and balanced)...Bush I, as you pointed out, had the opportunity to continue on to Baghdad yet, primarily because of concerns about carnage on "Highway of Death" (not the U.N.) chose to halt our troops. The Republican Guard were allowed to escape almost completely intact with their equipment which was later used on Kurdish and Shitte uprisings while U.S. sat idly by...it was, IMHO, a blunder of tremendous proportions. Bush I operatives later tried to blame Gen. Powell (the man Bush II chose as his Secretary of State) for the stoppage of the war. But Bush I was CIC and, as Truman points out, the buck stops there!

I have in fact watched almost every single tape about the Gulf War on those channels and in fact the History Channel has updated the ones with Kent Clark, the guy who covered the first Gulf War, were run last week and re-run during the weekend. The only person who said they felt bad about the Highway of Death was Colin Powell, which is most likely some revisionism. However, the Highway of Death had nothing to do our armored "left hook" that was halted from driving to Baghdad, since the arabs and liberals made sure the resolution did not upset that non-existant 'arab street'. Consequently, the Iraq "cease fire" was a UN resolution since our units were mixed.