Thread 18136565

The iraq war is viewed as one of the most shameful incidents in recent memory in the US, with mass protests and liberal media outrage at the time.

But how did people view the other iraq war that took place in 1991? It happened under the other george bush. How did the media report on it, and what did people of different political affiliations think of it?

The same.
A war justified by "kuwait's protection" but that everybody knew it was just for Oil.

>>18136565 (OP)
Everyone was expecting another Vietnam tier quagmire, but the Coalition managed to utterly destroy Saddam's army with little casualities, and HW Bush made the correct decision to not try to depose Saddam, ending the war after having fulfilled the clean objective of freeing Kuwait

Mariah Carrey made a hit single about it.

>>18136587
America lost the gulf war. Failed basrah uprising too.
Also,
https://github.com/ingrahammark7/test/blob/79652b918a86207fb56928767c2ef4a1f8cfb290/tools/Misc/gulf.txt

>>18136565 (OP)
It was a resounding success.
>>18136587
>The same
Not by a long shot
>everybody knew it was just for oil
I never understood the oil meme as if it's some kind of dunk, oil interests are one of the most correct and justified motives for foreign involvements and military actions.
The Gulf War was indeed about oil and there's no shame in that. And the Iraq war could have turned out way better if oil was indeed the central interest instead of nonsense like "nation building".