CarolC,

With all due respect, if you cannot admit that the United Nations and its member states asked the US to evict Saddam's army from Kuwait, then there is little to be accomplished in talking to you about the Iraq war. Simple fact: all the military conflict in Iraq has stemmed from the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

The Safwan surrender agreement would not exist if the military conflict it stopped (temporarily and conditionally) did not exist.