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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
If there was a screw-up in the first Gulf War, it wasn't with Desert Storm, it was in the policy decisions at the end and afterward that helped Hussein survive.
Moreover, I'm not sure to what extent we could say they were screw-ups. There were a lot of competing forces pulling at the national interest then.
Of course, we didn't know that Hussein would go on to launch the Oklahoma City bombing and help Al Qaeda attack the Twin Towers. Might have changed the equation. 20/20 hindsight.
S_A_M
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Noted and agreed. Any screw-ups in Gulf War I were with GHWB, not Powell and Co.
My point really was that, looking back, Republican war waging really isn't something to be proud of. They have a habit of waging wars they can't build support for, and of waging them in a half-assed fashion (which is likely related to the lack of support).
