I ran across some trolls over here and the last blast I got before I gave up was some gibbering equating Operation Desert Fox and Operation Iraqi Freedom, as the invasion was formally known. Pretty simple to look up the mission statements . . .
OPERATION NAME: Operation Desert Fox
MISSION: To strike military and security targets in Iraq that contribute to Iraq’s ability to produce, store, maintain and deliver weapons of mass destruction.
Attacking Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom:
At 9:34 PM EST on March 19, 2003 (5:34 AM local time in Baghdad on March 20), United States and United Kingdom forces consisting of 40 cruise missiles and strikes led by 2 F-117s from the 8th Fighter Squadron (supported by Navy EA-6B Prowlers) and other aircraft began conducting military operations against the state of Iraq designed to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction and to remove the Iraqi Regime from power.
Where one was in support of the containment doctrine that evidence now tells us was effective, the other was expressly to remove the regime from power.
I’m sure whatever it is, it’s all Clinton’s fault, perhaps even Carter’s.