"Bush did it too!!"
Not one sentence of your post negates a single line of mine. As is often the case.
You had to drag back 17 years to pull that out of your hat, but thanks for the reminder that the American Left was hard over against that war too, something they've been trying to scratch over in recent years.
Without the Gulf War, Saddam would run Kuwait (at the very least) today, and the hidden nuclear program destroyed during that war would have generated a nice set of warheads by now.