[Choose Ye This Day]

"Well, we really screwed them in '91. Can't blame them for doubting us. "
"Were not alone in that though are we? Wasn't it their Arab brothers in the coalition that didn't want us to take Saddam out? "

Also, don't forget, that after we agreed to the UN-desired cease-fire & end to hostilities, Bush 41 and his advisers thought that the Hussein regime would implode after the failed war. The Shi'ites and the Kurds would rise up, revolt, and Saddam would be finished. However, WE DIDN'T BACK UP THE SEPARATISTS. We even allowed Hussein to keep his attack helicopters (?!?), which he used to slaughter the revolutionaries. We should have done much more to support them and stand by them AFTER the cease fire; maybe we wouldn't have had to go through the last 12 years of lying, murders and games.

Thank goodness 43 is taking care of bidness, and will leave no one hanging--except maybe Saddam, Qusay and Uday, at the end of their gallows ropes.

[DannyTN]

Yeah, the helicopters were a mistake.

The idea of letting the regime implode didn't sound too bad, but we should have supported them when the time came. And we should have had a game plan in place if it failed.

It really was a gamble we should have never taken. Hindsight's 20/20.