The Democrats promote and the Repulicans forget that there were serious threats to impeach President Bush if he exceeded his congressional permission to ONLY remove Sadam from Kuwait.
You may recall that Bush went to the United Nations to get approval for the attack on Kuwait before he went to congress. He was certain as was I that he could not have even gotten the Congress to approve removing Sadam from Kuwait, if he had not gotten the United Nations approval first. You forget it was easier to get the leftist UN to approve the attack on Sadam than it was our own House and Senate.
Don't you remember everyone fron Mitchell, to Daschle, to Kennedy screaming give sanctions a try first. They paraded every military democrat on every TV program telling us how it woiuld be another Viet Nam?
Every Democrat and nearly all of the Media was demanding that we only do sanctions against Sadam for a year or two. They said if the sactions don't work then maybe they would give Bush the right do something else about Sadam.
Don't you remember Ross Perot on Larry King saying that Bush Sr. had only prepared for 10,000 American casualties? Perot said if we attacked Sadam we were likely going to have 50,000 badly wounded troops and Bush was committing a criminal act by only prepairing for 10,000. Perot kept saying that lots of our men would die for lack of medical treatment at the hands of the nearly undefeatable Sadam. Perot an Senator Dodd kept telling us Sadam had the worlds 4th largest army. Trained in desert warfare. You may recall that we actually only had 138 casualties nothing near the 10,000 planned for. Afterwords a Democrat controlled Senate Committe accused Bush of wasting huge sums of money on medical supplies. They said he was spending taxpawer money with his "cronies in the medical supply field". The supplies were never used. What would they have said if he had prepared for 50,000 people to be hurt?
Lots of us were going to die to protect the interests of "BIG OIL" was what the Democrats were screaming. How many times did we hear that it was all about BIG OIL. Americans should not die for BIG OIL. they said... over and over and over. It was not about Sadam.. it was about BIG OIL they said.
American approval for removing Sadam from Kuwait never reached 50 percent before we attacked. If Bush had done what you reccomend he would have been impeached and convicted.
I find it amazing how easy it is to Democrats to trash Bush Sr. for not doing enough to Sadam, when they didn't want to do anything except let Sadam keep Kuwait and prepare to take the Saudi Oil Fields. If we had followd the Democrats plan on Sadam, today he would have more wealth than the United States, he would control most of the worlds oil. He would have more nukes than the Soviet Union had at its peak, and gasoline would be 50 dollars a gallon. Our unemployemnt rate would be 45 percent.
Bush did not take out Sadam because the democratic congress forbid him from doing so. But even Bush Sr. knows better than to say anything. The Press would print in foot high letters that Bush Sr. is trying to shift blame for his failure onto the Democrats.
All he can hope for in our media world is that a handful of people will remember the truth. The handful is indeed very small.
Unfortunately, that was before my "great awakening". So thanks again for even more perspective.
I find it amazing how easy it is to Democrats to trash Bush Sr. for not doing enough to Sadam, when they didn't want to do anything except let Sadam keep Kuwait and prepare to take the Saudi Oil Fields. If we had followd the Democrats plan on Sadam, today he would have more wealth than the United States, he would control most of the worlds oil. He would have more nukes than the Soviet Union had at its peak, and gasoline would be 50 dollars a gallon. Our unemployemnt rate would be 45 percent.
I'll be sure to put this nfo to good use.