It was an incredible act of will to send troops or to invade at all. People forget that.
Dukakis or Kerry would have waiting years for "The Sanctions to Bite" as Hussein finsished his first nukes. Or may have sent no troops at all in the first place.
I don't forget it, and I fault it as "not being incredible enough". I lay all the deaths of 9-11, and the military and civilian deaths in the current Iraq war DIRECTLY at the feet of Bush I. Simply put, the man screwed the pooch---BADLY.
Bush I had a historical tendency of "wussing out", on taxes AND in the Gulf War, despite his track record of personal heroism in WWII. Thank heaven that Bush II gets his cojones from his mom and not his dad.
Everybody forgets that a hostile Congress just barely authorized President Bush to use force just to liberate Kuwait.