"We do not want to destabilize the regime of Saddam Hussein"

[Horse with no Name]

This has always been something that bothered me, although it didn't hit me until today why.
President George Bush (41) told the US forces to stop. "Withdraw from Iraq", was the order which came down from President George Bush. "We do not want to destabilize the regime of Saddam Hussein"
Only a few hours after Operation Desert Storm had started, the US Army was 30 miles from Baghdad. There was no military force at all between the US Army and Baghdad. The only army Saddam Hussein still had was far from Baghdad and still on the border with Kuwait. The US Army had only to walk into Baghdad and take over. Not a shot would have been fired. There was nobody to stop them.
General Norman Schwartzkoff has spoken of this many times and many places. He more or less had Saddam within grasp, but was told that (paraphrase) this wasn't the "mission".
So what was the mission? To destabilize the US? To rob the treasury?
To fill the pockets of the rich croneys?
Timing is everything--and even though the timing was right to take out Saddam, the timing wasn't right to make all the money they could.
The Republicans didn't have a stranglehold on the American populace--as shown by their overwhelming election of Clinton.
However, the Clinton Presidency gave them PLENTY of time to do planning.
And plenty of time to rally support of their hatemongering base.
Enter Rush Limpaugh and the hate radio team.
The mission was ALWAYS to go back to Iraq, but only when the spoils of war could line the pocket of the most wealthy in this country.

[hippiechick]

1. The mission at the time was to stop Saddam from taking Jr's oil ...

... the 'line in the sand' drawn by Poppy was just outside Jr's Harken Oil fields.

Poppy turned a blind eye to Iraq overrunning Kuwait, but when Saddam started salivating over the adjacent area which the * family and partners had a shitload of holdings in, then he called it a war.

[Horse with no Name]

2. yep.

That's it in a nutshell.:thumbsup: