Les Aspin

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid read more

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.

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy read more

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad read more

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.