Les Aspin
Les Aspin
Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr.was a United States Representative from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994. In Congress, Aspin had a reputation as an intellectual who took a middle-of-the-road position on controversial issues. He supported the Reagan administration regarding the MX missile and aid to the Nicaraguan Contras, but he opposed the B-2 bomber and the Strategic Defense Initiative. He played a major role in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 July 1938
CountryUnited States of America
That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.
We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.