Most of them were to the right of Little Porgie's daddy. We did light up the sky over Baghdad, but that was an air effort.
And we didn't "invade" Kuwait, either. The powers that be, there, despots like many in the region, absolute rulers who got their jobs by inheritance and wealth, quite plainly invited us in.
That whole mess was precipitated by a dispute about oil fields, and a bit of "directional drilling" going on to steal some oil from Iraq at an angle. Iraq blew up those oil fields and dumped a ton of oil in the Gulf following that stunt. They also thought it was a good idea to lob some weaponry at Israel. In for a penny, in for a pound, I guess...? Saddam was hoping, I suppose, that his neighbors would leap to his aid, but he forgot how many of them were getting a stipend from, or via, USA.
While Iraq was trying to annex Kuwait, the UN passed a series of resolutions telling Iraq to cut the shit, which Iraq ignored.
It was an unfortunate event, that could have been avoided entirely with artful diplomacy. SECDEF Cheney no doubt wanted to get his paws on that oil, but he was foiled by Porgie's paw declaring victory and having a parade. Darn the bad luck!
The Porgie War, though, that was entirely a much grander load of horseshit--that was a failed attempt at regime change. They succeeded in changing the regime, but not to anything resembling what they wanted it to be.
Who remembers this? These idiots actually thought the Iraqis would be happy to incorporate Israeli blue into their brand new flag--it's like they were high, or something:
The second one really ended up with this as a result:
It's hard to know how the situation would have shaken out--Saddam might have died, and one of his crazy kids might have taken over--that wouldn't be a terribly good outcome. They were much more "murder-y" than Saddam, who was no piker, himself.
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