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NO! If we would have taken him out when we were at his front door! IF we would have done the job right back in 1991 all of the crap that happened from 1991 through 2001 would have never happened. We could have avoided the mess we are in now.

Hindsight is 20/20 & at the time, our CiC, most of his advisers & most of the leaders of the free world were still in a Cold War mentality. You don't think there would have been any insurgency & reconstruction with Iran messing with us at the end of Desert Storm with the Hussein government toppled?