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Originally posted by Animal:
Actually, it was the UN who "called off the dogs" back during the original Gulf War, not the US. Bush was fully behind removing Saddam from power, and probably should have been left to do so.
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Wrong. Sorry, but wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Bush saw footage Colin Powell showed him of the "highway of death" and other horrible defeats where the US basically mopped up the enemy. He told Bush he would advise ending the war within 24-48 hours.
Bush saw the PR problem of helicopters chasing down troops fleeing on foot and called it off. He said, "If we're going to end it then, we may as well end it now."
Much to their chagrin, as soon as they told Iraq they could end it, Iraq asked "You mean we can fly overhead to put down revolutions in the south?" Scwharzkoff said, "Yes, we are leaving."
Even though we were pulling out, Bush encouraged the Iraqi people to rise up and overthrow Saddam. The Kurds in the north and other tribes in the south tried. They were answered with chemical bombs, mass murders, random executions, and other horrible attrocities, directly mosly by Chemical Ali at Saddam's behest.
Then, those attrocities forced the US to establish No-Fly Zones.
Everyone always gets this sequence of events so very wrong.