[John H K]

The remarkable thing about sanctions is the whole "waiting for the sanctions to bite" mantra from 1990 was completely forgotten (along with a lot of things about 1990) in the run up to this war.

There literally were legions of people and newspaper editorial after editorial advocating waiting a YEAR (or more) for the "Sanctions" to "bite" and cause Hussein to simply withdraw from Kuwait because of the "pain."

[Howlin]

Yes, a whole year. Imagine. :-)