In 1991, the United States military, along with about 40 other countries as minor players, evicted Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi army from Kuwait. The UN asked us to.

From 1991 to March of 2003, the same military forces controlled all of Kuwait and 70% of Iraq. They set aside a notherrn safe zone to protect Kurds and a southern (larger) area to protect the Shiite majority. Still, Saddam spent the next 12 years thumbing his nose at the rest of the world and violationg the ceasefire agreement he had signed at Safwan. Please go back and read about that agreement.

In 2003, the US Congress voited to evict Saddam Hussein which resulted in the coalition forces occupying the remaining 30% of Iraq. How anyone can call the "unprovoked" or "premptive" is beyond rational reason.

The ouster of Iraq from Kuwait in 1991 was successful as was the ouster of the Hussein government in 2003. The current government is democratically elected, and has been told that we are there at their disgression. I they tell us it is time to leave, we will leave.

The time to verbally attack the US, the US military or the politicians who made those decisions ended in March, 2003.
Hard decisions had to be made and they were. It is long past time for this type of partisan sniping. The decisions were made for the right reasons and, once made, should be supported by all of us.