>>>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.
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>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.
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>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).

Thanks for sharing your opinion on this. Maybe he really did the correct thing, but I was just wondering, at that time, why he stopped short of overthrowing S.H.