Why the Dark Secrets of the First Gulf War Are Still Haunting Us
Americans, and our leaders, would do well to take a hard look at the war that we continue to love only because we never got to see it. Full Story »
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Posted by Dwight Rousu - Feb 28, 2009 - 8:56 PM PST
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Dwight Rousu - Feb 28, 2009 - 8:56 PM PST
The most thorough treatment I have read regarding the events leading up to Gulf War I, though I would stop short of endorsing Nora Eisenberg's view that 9/11 was strictly a "cause and effect" event that we brought upon ourselves. (In fact we may one day find that the truth is uglier than that.) For those who wish to understand Gulf War I, and its aftermath, I highly recommend this story.
I was acutely aware of the Soviet peace agreement that Gorbachev brokered on the eve of our invasion, because a month earlier I personally implored Gorbachev to get involved in order to stop the invasion. Yet, in the elder Bush's own words, he told Collin Powell "We'll have to stiff Gorbachev." Bush wanted this war to cement his place in history and end the "Vietnam Syndrome;" peace was not an option.
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The outing of the history of the first U.S. war on Iraq shows a previous lying government and misleading propaganda eagerly forwarded by mainstream media.
The precursor to the most recent war disaster in Iraq is informative. The 1991 war was "short" and "successful" so the public was not forced to face the truth at the time. Eisenberg sounds positive about Obama; we shall see. Does he believe the fable? Escalating in Afghanistan and keeping 50K occupation troops in Iraq is not a promising start.
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I remember when Bush was making his case for the invasion. The author was right-on in his report of the events that happened. With sources to back him up, the author takes us back, to another Bush/Cheney war. If our Ambassador would have even hinted at the possibility of America entering this war, it would have never happened.It's hard to imagine two ex-Presidents, father and son, with the blood of millions on their hands for no reason except for oil.
How Cheney can sleep at night, if he can, with the decisions he has made to murder so many people, is beyond reason.
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