Why didn't Bush Senior Demand Regime replacement after the U.S. won the first Persian Gulf War...?

Answer 1

Because Bush Sr, unlike his cowardly offspring had served in combat and knew the human cost of an attack on Baghdad. Also, he was advised better by experienced statesmen not neoconservative ideologues and knew that Iraq would degenerate into a civil war type situation, and that Iraq was a bulwark against Iran expanding its power in the Middle East. All things Dumya never took into account when he launched his war of aggression against Iraq. Now if you look at the situation Bush Sr. , his advisers were correct on every point.

Answer 2

Because Bush senior didn't have the right to invade and conquer Iraq. The mandate from the UN was to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait and secure it's borders. This was accomplished by taking over a large amount of Iraq but Hussein then capitulated with the UN so the 1st Gulf war ended.

Answer 3

They did of Kuwait but never got it!

As far as the other!

We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome.
Excerpt from "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam" by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time (2 March 1998):

Answer 4

Because the purpose of the First Gulf War was the liberation of Kuwait, which was wrongfully invaded by Iraq.

It was never about taking Saddam out of power.

We kicked Iraq out of Kuwait and gave Kuwait back to the rightful people, the Kuwaitis.

there was a 23 member multinational force that was there to do this thing. this coalition even included other arab countries such as Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. thewy were there to help a brother Arab nation (Kuwait) to regain their freedom from an oppressor.

If we (the USA) had gone beyond those goals of freeing Kuwait and proceeded on to removing Saddam after we got Kuwait back. then our 23 nation coalition would have fallen apart and we would have been fighting troops within our formations (Syria, Egypt, and Jordan) as we would then be attacking another fellow Arab brother nation (Iraq)

Answer 5

Because the Democrats said they'd impeach him if he "went to Baghdad," since the UN resolution and the US authorization from Congress only covered removing him from Kuwait.

Then many of the same Democrats blamed all our problems with Saddam in the 90s on Bush 41 "not finishing the job."

Excellent question! I am cursed with a long memory.

Answer 6

Bush Sr. was smart not to get involved in an Urban war in Baghdad. All we did was knock Iraq back a few decades and decimate the army so they wouldn't be a threat. 10 years later, they still weren't a threat.

Answer 7

because he knew that it would create a power vacume in iraq creating the same situation that we are in now.

Answer 8

oh you mean he agreed with bubba klintoon and ted the swimmer kennedy and madelein not-so-bright and schumer and kerry and berger???hmmmmmm

Answer 9

Because the liberals did not want that.

Answer 10

the UN