Quote Originally Posted by Rameusb5
This is exactly the reason why we didn't push to Bagdad in '91.
Just for the sake of Historical accuracy: The reason we did not "push on" to Baghdad is that we had a very clear mandate to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait. The recent mandate against Iraq was intentionally vague and the US filled in the blank spots.

If we would have continued to occupy the country, we would immediately loose the coalition and it would be a very different war. Remember what happened when we were so confident in Korea that we forsook (oh, God, that’s spelled correctly?) our goal of pushing NK back and decided to push on to the Yalu river.