The Iraqi Wars

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200507110807.asp ^ | July 11, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson

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Iraq is a blur now. Everyone from Norman Schwarzkopf and General Zinni to Tommy Franks and General Abezaid is mixed up in our memories. The public can't quite separate Baathists from jihadists, Shiite from Sunni, or one coalition from another. Mostly the confusion arises because we have compressed four separate wars of two decades into some vague continuum.

War I (January 17 to March 3, 1991) The First Iraqi War ("The Gulf War," "Persian Gulf War," "Gulf War I," "The Four-Day War," or "Iraqi-Kuwaiti War") started over Saddam Hussein's August 2, 1990, invasion of Kuwait. His occupation precipitated the American-led coalition's efforts to reclaim Kuwait through land and air attacks. Saddam's complete capitulation was seen as satisfying the war's professed claim of restoring the sovereignty of Kuwait.

But despite retreating from Kuwait and suffering terrible damage to his armed forces, Saddam, like the Germans in 1918, claimed that his armies had been repelled while on the offensive. So he passed off a setback as a draw against the world's superpower — and thus a win by virtue of his own survival against overwhelming odds.

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[Mind-numbed Robot]

Good review and recap Hanson, as is usual by.

We know our enemy is also the left in this WoT. They defeated us in the Vietnam War by undermining us here at home and scaring the politicians. They are trying furiously for a repeat. We must be loud in our protest of them rather than just shrugging and saying there is little we can do because of the media support for the left.

Remember, the Democrats are the left and the left is the enemy. Never forget that as we fight the Dems we are fighting the terrorists and also an enemy here at home.The left and the terrorists are a loud, unscrupulous, vicious, and aggressive minority. As such they get their way by being liars and bullies. It is time for us to tell this minority to sit down and stfu, starting with the Supreme Court nominations.

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Draft Hanson for 2008!!! We got to turn him publican...but he may be leaning that way anyhow...just a little push and he'd run for us.