What's Your View
President George H.W. Bush greets General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who leads the Desert Storm Homecoming Parade in Washington, D.C, June 8, 1991.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
In the aftermath of the Gulf War, in early 1991, the Iraqi invaders were driven from Kuwait, fulfilling the mission's stated goals. Still, some of George H.W. Bush's critics felt that the military should have invaded Baghdad to "finish the job." Though the U.S. and its coalition won the Gulf War decisively and quickly, Saddam had not been forced to publicly admit defeat, nor was he forced to sign the ceasefire himself.
Your Views
If George H.W. Bush had been left to his own devices... he would have gone into Baghdad. He was precluded from doing that by the war in Vietnam and the whole Vietnam syndrome concept. He was being told by advisor after advisor that you can't stay through past about 100 days, because it will poison your chances in the 1992 election. But the end of the Iraq War goes against everything that George Bush believes, which is to eradicate evil from the world.
John Robert Greene
Cazenovia, New York
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