Beardedbruce, under what treaty was an attack on Kuwait an attack on the US? Wise up. And on what basis do you say IMHO, the information that was availible at the time, from British, Russian, and US sources ( now suspect, but so what- one has to act on what one has)[my emphasis]? I don't know about the US, but certainly for the UK it was something of a first to kick off a war on the basis of intelligence alone. There was surely an obligation to make sure the intelligence was based on something before setting about the slaughter of innocent people in their thousands? Simply "to act on what one has" is just crass stupidity.