| | village voice > news > Mondo Washington: The First Bush War by James Ridgeway |
 | | Since so many of the people involved in preparations for the war against Iraq (Cheney, Powell, and Wolfowitz being the most prominent) worked in the first Bush administration and had a hand in crafting Desert Storm in 1991, there is renewed speculation as to whether that war was a put-up job by Bush senior. |
 | | And before and during that war there was considerable interest in reports of a meeting between Saddam and U.S. ambassador April Glaspie in which she purportedly told him, "We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts such as your dispute with Kuwait" and "Secretary [of State James] Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction. |
 | | And there were the little things, like the heart-wrenching account by a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl volunteering in a hospital who said she watched as Iraqi soldiers barged in and stole incubators, leaving some 300 babies to die on the floor. |
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