Desert Storm was a beautiful example of "Millenium Republicans at War" or at peace for that matter. Limited goals (protect "our" oil), limited results (we protected "our" oil - for a while), ignore the suffering of the the people who are not helping to provide "our" oil (Saddam had his way with those in his own country who opposed him, while we looked the other way), ignore the real evil (Saddam) when it's in our limited interest, control and manipulate the press coverage to make us look good, deny any and all mistakes you may have made even when the result is horrible for your own soldiers. Let's see, did I miss anything? Oh, yeah. Achieve your mission. Of course the military guys that accomplished that have gone on to other careers, haven't they?

I have great respect for those who fought in Desert Storm, but little for their "leaders".