And many felt it was a mistake to leave SH in power
by
swiet
07/06/2008, 4:01 PM #
following the 1st Gulf War.
But I totally understood why Bush #41 did just that. He didn't want to leave Saddam Hussein in power, but had no choice except to prove himself to be dishonorable, not a man of integrity nor trustworthy.
Those Gulf States who offered support in the 1st Gulf War wanted the ruthless Dictator and his forces out of Kuwait but they didn't want America to remove him from his Muslim Country. The UN didn't want the US to remove Saddam Hussein from power, they wanted sanctions (that later proved to be a joke proven by the Oil For Food Scandal) and to contain him.
Pres Bush #41 gave his word he wouldn't invade Baghdad. And many didn't like it nor understand it.
12 Resolutions later, US pilots being shot at daily, $25,000 rewards to families of suicide bombers, safe-haven to the worlds most ruthless terrorists, and terror camps, and his quest for power and control and the means to achieve it (wmd) ... the SELLING of the war of 2003 was a failure but not the war itself. Bush lost the P.R. war and it wasn't without the assistance from many on both sides of the aisle.