re: #143 windsagio

I know why!

The Arab states were absolutely against him overthrowing the Iraqi government, and the coalition would have collapsed if he tried.

They didn’t wanna try to control Iraq either, probably knew that Saddam was doing a pretty effective job of keeping the Kurds and Shi’ites supressed.

You may well be correct in that. It is possible that Bush senior did read it that way. However, the consequences of that choice were clearly not so good.