George h. w. bush decided against long-term u. s. involvement in iraq for all of these reasons except

The reason why George W. Bush against long-term US involvement is, he thinks it might generate a power vacuum for an anti-American community to take over, he had accomplished the goal of forcing Iraq to extract from Kuwait, other regions in the area did not support long-term U.S. involvement, and he decided there were inadequate oil reserves to make it worthwhile.