When you said this...
"He went on to say how he had urged Bush I to destroy Iraq and that Bush I had faltered. Made a big deal over it."
Were you referring to this statement?
"Now, back in 1991, I was one of a handful of Democrats in the United States Senate to vote in favor of the resolution endorsing the Persian Gulf War, and I felt betrayed by the first Bush administration's hasty departure from the battlefield even as Saddam began to renew his persecution of the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south, groups that we had, after all, encouraged to rise up against Saddam"