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Yup. He was pretty much banging out the intel on his laptop that Colin Powell had to then sing and dance to the UN. Was it really a surprise that Colin Powell resigned immediately after that?
I'm not so sure about Gulf War 1, though. I think George H.W. Bush was not an idiot, had actual, defended reasons for Gulf War1 and the "prescience" to not occupy and reconstruct Iraq indefinitely. It's amazing how "free" the American people are with spending tax dollars to build a foreign country, but chaff and cry and blubber over spending tax money domestically....