Wednesday, February 27, 2008
This Day in the History of Kicking the Can Down the Road
On this day in 1991, President George Bush (senior) declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight. So Saddam stayed in power where he continued to slaughter his people, to ignore his cease fire promises, and to shoot at our planes, until another president, by chance George Bush's son, had to finish the job.
Labels: Gulf War I
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:57 AM 
