Reply #50: At the time [View All]

[Nicholas_J]

It was not justified, and the diplomatic efforts established by the U.N. to compel Saddam Hussein to leave Kuwait had still not exceed the time limits set upon Iraq by the U.N. to comply with them.

The war would not be justified until the U.N. agreed to go along with the U.S. and form a coalition, and this had not happened at the time that the request that George Herbert Walker Bush presented to the Congress 1989-1990. THe act in 1991 was similar to the act in 2002.

George Bush's father went to congress asking to go to the U.N. in order to go to War With Iraq, after less than a year of diplomatic efforts given a chance to get Saddam to leave Kuwait.

George Bush did the same thing. went to Congress before going to the U.N.

Differnce is that his father got U.N. support for war, and George Bush did not.

In both cases, the president asked congress for support before getting a U.N. agreement on going to war with Iraq.