and that's what happened. >> how americans and how iraqis experienced the war is radically different. american troops have very little loss of life, very little bloodshed opposed to the iraqis foot soldiers and civilians. >> on february 27th, the president meets with his closest advisors in the oval office. >> many advisors said, take baghdad. you still have a bad actor in saddam hussein. why not finish the job? >> he could have decided to capture saddam hussein but his legal mandate was to liberate kuwait from iraqi rule, and george bush knew, having years of large scale occupation of a foreign country, would only result in disdain for the united states, disgust for the united states and body bags.