[Mortimer Snavely]

"The Turks stopped us from taking out Saddam in Gulf War 1."

How so?

[justa-hairyape]

For the same reason they just refused to allow US Land Troops to launch an offensive from Turkey. They do not want the Kurds to live freely or to have even a hint of autonomy. The Turkey/Kurdish issue was one of the items cited as to why President Bush applied the brakes. That along with upsetting the Arab members within the coalition. Now hindsight is 20-20, but those two concerns are why Saddam was left in power. You should never leave a madman like that in power. In this case he plotted revenge and logistically supported anti-western terrorism. Not to mention his attacks on the Shiites and the Kurds