dfwgator:
Well, I think part of the issue with Gulf war 1 was Saddam starting shooting at Israel with the skuds. My guess is had the US not jumped in, Israel would have, and that could have led to a larger middle east war. I agree, the Saudi influence with the Bushes was a part of it. The US is far less dependent on foreign oil today than we were back then, in fact, we are now well over 50% domestic. At that time, more lie 60 or so foreign. Saddam controlling that much oil and wealth by overrunning Kuwait [and he would not have stopped] was a factor for Gulf 1.
Hitler and Saddam is not a valid comparison. Hitler’s Germany had overrun Europe and had an army and weaponry that could have imposed serious damage on the world [even more so than they did] as they were not to far off from obtaining atomic weapons and had already before the end of the war developed early missile and Jet fighter technology.
Did that not happen AFTER we were already over there?