I seem to remember Bush 41 playing golf the entire month of August 1990 while Saddam invaded Kuwait. Couldn’t bother himself to go to Washington to organize the marshalling of forces.
Doesn't he have people to do that?
Even if that were true, a president should hand the war over to the military and let them fight it.
Wars managed by politicians are disasters.
Having been in the Army in Washington, when Saddam invaded Kuwait, I’ll defend GHWB. The afternoon of the invasion, there were study teams put together at DIA and the old Army ITAC. The next morning a dozen of us from ITAC reported to the Army Operations Center intel watch to reinforce it. The AOC was in full operation with planning, logistics, and reserve callup sections active.
Units were being notified for deployment and a brigade of the 82nd Airborne was on the way to Saudi Arabia within 72 hours of the invasion. With modern communications, Bush gave the order to mobilize and it was carried out. There was no need, other than ‘show’ for him to rush to DC to appear to be in charge.
And I’m also a “former Arty FO.”
AHHHhh link?
Didn’t our help with Kuwait happen in 2002?
he Persian Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), known also as the Gulf War, the First Gulf War[12][13], or often as the Second Gulf War [14][15] and by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as The Mother of all Battles,[16] or commonly as Desert Storm, for the military response. The final conflict was initiated with United Nations authorization, by a coalition force from 34 nations against Iraq, with the expressed purpose of expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after its invasion and annexation on 2 August 1990.
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