It was a strategic decision, and unclear which one got it right. Maybe the next time you lead a coalition and invade Kuwait and Iraq, you’ll do it better.
RINO’s don’t invade and free Iraq and smash Sadaam Hussein, as GHWB did.
Easy to be an armchair general, isn’t it?
Get your history right, GHWB didn’t finish the job, he left it for GWB. It has nothing to do with being an ‘armchair general’, it has everything to do with paying attention to the colossal screw up during the first Gulf War. It may have been a ‘strategic decision’ as you put it, but the results are clear for everyone to see.
Here’s a little mental exercise for you: If Saddam had been taken out like the garbage he was in February ‘91, how many innocent Iraqis might have lived, instead of being tortured and summarily executed by Saddam and his boys Uday and Qusay, how many Iraqi women might have escaped being raped by official ‘rapists’ on Saddam’s payroll, get the picture?
And do try to calm down, hero worship will wind up your blood pressure and nerves every time.
And as an afterthought:
There is a reason why Margaret Thatcher never had to say “Don’t go wobbly Ronnie”, to our 40th President, but indeed had to stiffen up GHWB’s resolve with those same words.
But you probably don’t want to go there.