End of the Desert Storm 3/5

[roro560v8]

AMERICA , WHY THE HELL YOU DONOT KICK THAT MOTHER FUCKER (SDAM) AT THAT TIME, IF THE DID THAT WERE BE MUCH BETTER THEN 2003 SHIT

[Hperman09]

@roro560v8 Because the UN mandate only allowed the liberation of Kuwait sadly and we along with our coalition allies had to follow the UN mandates. US, UK and Australia are only countries agreed to go further into Iraq and into the capital of Baghdad to oust Saddam from power but the rest of our allies said that our objective have been achieved so we stopped going further into Iraq.

[natcaasi]

i thought the American bungled the 2nd invasion due to the lack of a post-war reconstruction/reconciliation/­peace plan ... not solely due to just having gone back ...

[peneltube]

Marion Thatcher was so right...

[TheTomyossarian]

@peneltube "marion" thatcher?? Margaret Thatcher's sister, I suppose...

[Rjackman84]

Iraq wasn't a military power to begin with, saying that has always made me chuckle.

[planemad2]

Norm is a great man

[Vamavid]

Schwarzkopf's words were prophetic.

[Oxidus]

First they incited the Iraqi civilians to have an uprising with an implicit assurance that they would be helped.... and later the rebels were left to fend for themselves.

Sad but true.

[Hperman09]

@Oxidus The real problem is that Saudis, Syrians and Gulf States did not want us to do that because it would have put Shiites in charge in the Southeast. The Turks, Iranians, and Russians did not want us to do it because it would have put Kurds in charge in the Northwest. The first Bush and Clinton administration was afraid Iraq would breakdown into a prolonged Civil War like Lebanon. In the end we stood by and watched the Republican Guard crush the rebellions.

[fedorvonbock16]

stupidity gave the iraqy army a draw.

[dethica]

@fedorvonbock16

lets be honest, in terms of men and materiel, it wasnt a draw.

[redmustang03]

Wow even Stormin Norman said we shouldn't have gone back then and now were stuck there.

[mbaynham]

cant believe we didnt do anything in about saddam back in 91, should have saved ourselves the trouble and done it then rather than back in 2003

[mbaynham]

i do see the reasons they didnt though

[RichardSwayne]

How right was Norm?

[zooch79]

Very...