Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possess the authority to topple Hussein's regime on his own initiative--that authority lay only with the civilian Commander-in-Chief, then President Bush. Furthermore, the U.N. mandate under which the allied acted, and by which the allies scrupulously abided, only allowed them to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control (which was accomplished) and it expressly forbade the overthrow of Baghdad by force of arms...
...point, Cheney asked Powell to explore hypothetical nuclear-strike options against Iraqi units. Powell responded , "We're not going to let that genie loose.'' Cheney agreed, but he was curious to know what would be required. "The results unnerved me," recalls Powell. "To do serious damage to just one armored division dispersed in the desert would require a considerable number of small tactical nuclear weapons. I showed this analysis to Cheney and then had it destroyed...
...away. I told him to keep hitting them, and I would get back to him. I passed Norm's report to the President and the others. Although we were all taken slightly aback, no one felt that what we had heard changed the basic equation. The back of the Iraqi army had been broken. What was left of it was retreating north. There was no need to fight a battle of annihilation to see how many more combatants on both sides could be killed. The President reaffirmed his decision to end the fighting. I then called Schwarzkopf again and relayed...
...victory at Gettysburg. A half-century after World War II, scholars are still arguing over General Eisenhower's decision not to beat the Soviet armies to Berlin. And, I expect, years from now, historians will still ask if we should not have fought longer and destroyed more of the Iraqi army. Critics argue that we should have widened our war aims to include seizing Baghdad and driv ing Saddam Hussein from power. The critics include even my predecessor as Chairman, Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., who testified in Congress for continued sanctions and against going...
...threat to Kuwait, with only 1.5 million people. With or without Saddam and with or without the Republican Guard, Kuwait's security depends on arrangements with its friends in the region and the U.S. That is the strategic reality. The other reality is that in 1991 we met the Iraqi army in the field and, while fulfilling the U.N.'s objectives, dealt it a crushing defeat and left it less than half of what it had been...