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The U.S. Economic Costs of Gulf War II
It is Feb. 7, 2003, just after U.S. troops have seized several Iraqi airfields to be used as staging areas. Suddenly, Scud missiles — armed with both chemical and conventional warheads — strike the airfields. Hundreds of Americans die. The … Continue reading
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Gulf War Veterans Fight a Different Battle
Mitchell Lambert came back from the Persian Gulf War with lasting souvenirs — rashes, lumps, headaches and seizures. He’s convinced that those symptoms relate to the four months he spent serving his country in the Mideast more than a decade … Continue reading
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UCLA Students Say “No” to Gulf War II
The resolution was approved with a 5-0-5 vote. All five Undergraduate Students Association Council members from the Student Empowerment! slate voted in favor of the resolution. The other council members abstained from voting. More than 50 students from various student … Continue reading
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Exposing Gulf War Media Myths
Here are a few examples of commonly repeated errors: 1. “But as U.N. weapons inspectors prepare to return to Iraq for the first time since Saddam kicked them out in 1998, the U.S. faces a delicate balancing act: transforming the … Continue reading
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The Military’s New War of Words
SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. — It was California’s own Hiram Johnson who said, in a speech on the Senate floor in 1917, that “the first casualty, when war comes, is truth.” What would he make of the Bush administration? In a … Continue reading
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U.S., U.K. Launch Secret Gulf War
British and American warplanes are attacking Iraq’s air defences almost daily, and making practice runs on other targets. US special forces are reported to be on the ground in western and northern Iraq, and military engineers are preparing and upgrading … Continue reading
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Bush Ignores CIA Evidence
President Bush has said he will decide on the basis of “the best intelligence” whether to make war on Iraq. He has gone on record assuring the nation that “we’ve got the best intelligence, thanks to the men and women … Continue reading
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Is America Turning Toward “Night”
*** Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little … Continue reading
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Anger and Fear Don’t Justify Iraq War
Perhaps the threat of war is only to force Saddam Hussein to accept inspectors. If that is what George W. Bush has been doing all along, the war resolution was a mere chess move, with Congress the pawns. One of … Continue reading
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U.S. Trained Iraqi Chemical Weapons Experts
November 22, 2002 SEATTLE — U.N. weapons inspectors should have no trouble communicating with some of the scientists in Iraq’s weapons program. After the Gulf War it was discovered that many of Saddam Hussein’s top engineers were educated in the … Continue reading
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