>>And why papa Bush didn't finish the work at that time?
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>I wondered about that from the very beginning. After getting so far, what stopped the U.S. (or the coalition?) from overthrowing the government at that time? I don't know the answer.

While I really don't think that the world at large would have expressed ANY displeasure at President GHW Bush if he had continued until Saddam was OUT (even dead), I think that GHWB did the right thing by stopping it when he did.

In doing so he provided proof positive that:
1) The U.N. mattered to him (the mandate being ridding Kuwait of Iraqi control);
2) The U.S. has no imperialist designs even when the area in question had OIL that would have been highly beneficial to the U.S. itself (as well as his allies).