[RLK]

I think we took too long personally.

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Hussein should have got two more days of Schwartzkopf the first time around. That would have ended it there. However, Bush the First didn't have the belly for it.

[truth_seeker]

"Hussein should have got two more days of Schwartzkopf the first time around. That would have ended it there. However, Bush the First didn't have the belly for it."

Bush followed the legal mandate of the UN coalition, in 1991. Blame all of them, not just Bush.

It was at the time a long held UN position to not topple governments. It still is. Balkans adventures were NATO, not UN.

Upon later consideration, and now deciding to not be restrained by the UN, the mistake of 1991 has been corrected.

That should please you, if you really subscribe to your statement above.

[SuziQ]

However, Bush the First didn't have the belly for it.

Bush the First didn't have the resolution from the UN for that action, and you, I'm sure, know that. Folks may not have liked our being hamstrung at the time, but that seemed to be the only way to do it. That's why it was important that we do it on our own this time, with the allies that we could muster. We were not held to what the UN said we could or could not do.

It may seem to be to our disadvantage that the intelligence from the UN may not have been the most accurate, but this may turn out TO our advantage in the future, cause it will be a good argument for beefing up our own intelligence service!