bottom line: Russia wins.

The US is 54 Trillion dollars in debt with a stop lost military and is not the mythological undenied supreme super power.

Jack when you (quoted) "Iraq never was our ally and they never received a "wink" from the US ambassador to invade Kuwait"
you probably did not intend to revise history but that statement is dead wrong. I watched the ambassador speak of her involvment and she said she was ordered to say "we have no intention to intervene."

Under Reagan we sent GHW Bush to Iraq for Saddams birthday. Bush was taped kissing Saddam on each cheek. ITs a much more powerful video than Rumsfeld sahking hands with Saddam.

Isn't it amaking how quickly we lose touch with accurate history?