“My question is why did we even go in the first place in the Gulf War?”
Briefly, to stop evil from flourishing and being exported from the region. W did that, and BO is reversing what he did.
What evil? Kuwait is just as bad, they just put on a friendlier face, like the Saudis.
And you know all those stories about Iraqis stealing incubators were a bunch of made up BS, right?