Top 13 Reasons Why Poppy Didn't Take Iraq

TOP 13 REASONS why POPPY DIDN'T TAKE IRAQ!
13. Because "neither the U.S. nor the countries of the region wished to see the breakup of the Iraqi state."
12. Because Poppy was "concerned about the long-term balance of power at the head of the Gulf."
11. Because "extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq would have violated" Poppy's "guideline about not changing objectives in midstream."
10. Because it "would have incurred incalculable human and political costs."
9. Because America "would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq."
8. Because "unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international
response to aggression" Poppy had "hoped to establish."
7. Because Poppy believed that "the fate of Saddam Hussein was up to the Iraqi people." All the above were taken from Poppy's own published words. Now, for a bit of unofficial, satiric truth...
6. Because he didn't want to risk his historically unprecedented approval rating.
5. Because Poppy's "good friends", the Saudi and Kuwaiti royal families, simply wouldn't have tolerated it.
4. Because Colin Powell got cold feet after too many people got wise to the basic facts surrounding IRAQGATE, wherein a rogue faction of the military-industrial-intelligence complex -- with Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld at the helm -- had illegally armed Saddam's regime, then tricked him into invading Kuwait, with the specific intent of establishing military bases in the strategically vital, petroleum-rich region.
3.
Because the sixty miles of murder inflicted upon retreating Iraqi troops during the Highway of Death incident had momentarily slaked Poppy's monstrous hereditary blood-thirst.
2. Because there were only so many war crimes Norman Schwarzkopf was willing to commit.
1. Because you eat the elephant one bite at a time.