The Bush Administration's Response to the Iraq War

The golf war was not the Bush administration responding to events and being like, Oh, cool, let's go with this. That does describe most events. But in the Iraq war case you have a situation where the US was in a position to interpose itself between Saddam and the Kuwaitis. It could have been worked out instead with the US did through its Iraqi ambassador April grub glass B is they went to Saddam and said to him point blank in the face. We have no interest in your dispute with theKuwaitis. It is not an American priority. It is up to you to resolve. And he resolved it by invading Kuwait, and then we decided we had our new global