What a difference some years make in our perspective. I remember distinctly sitting around with others full of bloodlust and enthusiasm after Americans kicked the Iraqis out of Kuwait and bemoaning the fact that George Bush was a wimp and didn't follow through and invade Iraq.
He said the job was to drive them out of Kuwait which the forces did. We thought, what a wimp, how silly when Iraq is ours for the taking. Push on to Baghdad, we said.
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