When we left, we weren't really sure what we were getting ourselves into, quite honestly. The government had been talking with the UN. The Prime Minister had been talking with the President of the United States and other leaders, so we left. There was a UN resolution. The resolution was that Saddam Hussein had to take the Iraqis out of Kuwait. Then we did the embargo and tried to put emphasis behind that to make him economically say, “Okay, I better get out.” He didn't, so that's what happened there.
It was a resolution that did not involve hostilities as we went over there. We were prepared for hostilities, and we trained for hostilities, both the navy and the air force, but when we got there, there weren't any. When the time came, we had to be able to do it, so that's when it went from a UN resolution to a conflict of war.