After all , in this piece the car-home-and-fire salesman turned global strategist describes the Gulf War as if it were a model of Clausewitzian clarity concerning ultimate goals and acceptable means , forgetting in the process that at the end of that war , the Bush / Powell / Schwarzkopf axis internally disagreed about war issues that had never been articulated for the American Should the U.S. destroy the Iraqi military , invade Baghdad , or topple Hussein even after Iraq was repulsed from Kuwait ?
Powell was in favour of the invasion of Baghdad .