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Originally Posted by afreespirit
The reason why the US did not continue it's offensive into Iraq was because the Congress had only authorized the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Republican presidents might like to go to war, but at least they do it with Congressional approval and within the bounds set by Congress.
In fact the 2003 invasion of Iraq was in military terms fairly easy,
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The reason Congress didn't approve forward military operations in Iraq is because that while Iraq was in the bottom 100th percentile for population, they were literally in the top FOUR for by gross for active military personnel in the world in 1990, which is (a) why Iran came begging for peace and (b) why the US didn't want to invade Iraq under any circumstances, and indeed avoided such for another 12 years. Six weeks? Fuck you, Iraq is still one of the worst places to live in the world, and its been 10 years!!