1. The Mexican War/The War Against Iraq
... , after a U.N. deadline for Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait expired, a U.N.-authorized, U.S.-led coalition drove Iraq out but stopped short of removing Saddam. President George Bush and his advisers didn't destroy Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War because, they say that, they had a U.N. mandate to liberate Kuwait, ... seeking to join Iran; and expectations that Saddam's regime was so weakened by his shameful defeat that it was doomed anyway. President Bush called to Iraqis to rise up against Saddam, and many Iraqi Kurds and Shiites did. But U.S. forces did not reinforce them or .....
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