You mean...

Posted By: Mythbuster on 2009-03-04
In Reply to: And to go a bit further into history, Daddy Bush had to do Desert Storm.....sm - Cyndiee

...the oil fields that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait to make his own? Those oil fields?

You mean the African tribes who have been ethnically cleansing one another for centuries and also selling each another into slavery? Those guys?

I agree that the first Bush 41 did a bad job. The problem with Desert Storm is that Bush wimped out, didn't finish the job, and let Hussein feel invincible.

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