| Gecko |
| (Carpal \'Tunnel) |
| 12/20/11 05:09 PM |
Re: OT - passing resemblance or not?
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Our involvement in Iraq during Desert Storm lasted what? 2 weeks? Entirely too short of a time period.
---> The first Gulf War went from August 1990 – February 1991. Most people refer to entire thing as Desert Storm, even though the liberation of Kuwait (aka Operation Desert Storm) took place January 17, 1991 to February 28 of the same year.
They should have gotten rid of Saddam when they had the chance.
---> I totally agree.
Secondly, we had no presence in the country of Iraq since that time until March of 2003.
---> That's not quite true. While we withdrew our military forces, we didn't withdrawal our operatives...hence Operations Desert Thunder and Operations Desert Fox in November and December '98. Oh...and there was that Tomahawk cruise missiles attack of the Zaafaraniya Nuclear Fabrication and Industrial Complex in the Baghdad in '93.
---> There was already enough cause for concern to justify a Second Gulf War (aka Operation Iraqi Freedom), but some people can't leave well enough alone and had to 'sex up' (as the Brits put it) the WMD reports. The result...bad public relations juju.