First Gulf War in 1991 was America’s opening Iraq mistake

Published June 30, 2014 5:00pm ET



Now’s not the time to re-litigate the Iraq War, we’re told — mostly by people whose bright idea it was in the first place.

If we “spend our time debating what happened 11 or 12 years ago,” says former vice-president Dick Cheney, we’re “missing the boat.”

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