My thoughts: the Iraqi troops were escaping from kuwait after looting; they made a horrible tactical error by being packed on those highways to Basra and Baghdad.
Coalition troops stopped the retreat and shotup the convoys.
1)War is nasty business, but you play to win.

General Schwartzkopf wanted to go all the way into Bahgdad because he knew we'd have to go back if we left Saddam with any republican guard troops and equipment. Popular opinion on the street ( liberal debate) said" the U.N..sanctioned action to remove Saddams forces from Kuwait had been "achieved".
I also think we should leave war fighting to the commanders on the ground; not the NSC and president ( civilians) and Frickin' u.n. "permission"a few thousand miles removed.

Originally posted by 46ACE
My thoughts: the Iraqi troops were escaping from kuwait after looting; they made a horrible tactical error by being packed on those highways to Basra and Baghdad.
Coalition troops stopped the retreat and shotup the convoys.
1)War is nasty business, but you play to win.

General Schwartzkopf wanted to go all the way into Bahgdad because he knew we'd have to go back if we left Saddam with any republican guard troops and equipment. Popular opinion on the street ( liberal debate) said" the U.N..sanctioned action to remove Saddams forces from Kuwait had been "achieved".
I also think we should leave war fighting to the commanders on the ground; not the NSC and president ( civilians) and Frickin' u.n. "permission"a few thousand miles removed.

edit on 2-2-2011 by 46ACE because: (no reason given)

I agree, we should chased the Iraqi Army troops all the way into Baghdad after the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation and depose's Saddam Hussein's government. The deba'athification and rebuilding of Iraq would have been much easier after the 1991 Gulf War. A proper occupation in 1991 would have been easier with Arab States and the Coalition with more troops, talks between two factions, and keep eyes in watch of Iranian backed-insurgents. Then Iraq would be a first-world class economy in the middle east. However our supply lines weren't able to keep up with the assault force thus halting much of the advance. Not to mention that we don't have support from the allied coalition. Just like WW2 General Patton said, he wanted to go all to way to Moscow after Germany was defeated in crush the communist regime there. Instead he was backed off by Politicians and the Public Opinion.