they feared that the Iraqi leader would go into hiding, as Panamanian strongman Manuel A. Noriega had done during the 1989 U.S. military intervention in Panama, and that U.S. troops would be unable to find him
The reason why because CIA Director Robert M Gates Hasbro via new detailed account of one of the most historic listen if again and controversial actions of the Bush administration the decision to leave Iraqi presidents Saddam Hussein in power at the end of the Persian Gulf war. In an interview with the times this week as he prepare to leave office Gates deputy national security advisor at the White House before and during the war against Iraq acknowledge that ministration officials talked extensively about the possibility of making the capture of Hussein one of America’s War aims. In the ends Gates said “Administration officials rejected the idea largely because they feared that the Iraqi leader would go into hiding as Panamanian strongman Manuel A. Noriega had done during the 1989 US military intervention in Panama and that US troops would be unable to find him
