Gulf War

 Gulf War 

Date	2 August 1990 - 28 February 1991
Location	Kuwait
Perpetrators	The cabal
Type	war
Interest of	Layla Anwar
Description	A war used by the US to effectively cow the Saudis into submission and bolster US military domination of the Gulf region.

Also known as 'The First Gulf War' and 'Operation Desert Storm'.

US tacit approval of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

A week before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, on July 25, 1990, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie had a personal meeting with Saddam Hussein in his Presidential Palace in Baghdad in which concluded with the pointed remark from the US that "we have no opinion on your Arab – Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960′s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America." When queried about this later by journalists, Glaspie stated "Obviously, I didn’t think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take all of Kuwait".

Nurse Nayirah

Full article: Nurse Nayirah

One of the most effective pieces of propaganda used to increase US public support for a war on Iraq was the testimony of "Nayirah", a purported 15 year old who spoke of Iraq soldiers throwing babies from incubators in the Kuwaiti hospital where she worked volunteer nursing assistant. Although repeated unquestioningly by commercially-controlled media and US political leaders, Nayirah was in reality the daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, and her testimony a complete fabrication devised by US public relations company Hill & Knowlton. This was widely understood as necessary to get approval in the US Senate, which voted 52-47 to approve the invasion.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
James Baker	“The economic lifeline of the industrial world runs from the gulf, and we can not permit a dictator such as this to sit astride that economic lifeline," [...] To bring it down to the level of the American citizen, let me say that means jobs. If you want to sum it up in one word, it's 'jobs'. Because an economic recession worldwide, caused by the control by one nation - one dictator if you will- of the West's economic lifeline, will result in the loss of jobs for American citizens.”	James Baker	November 1990
Jörg Haider	“Asked about the impression that Saddam is better for him than Bush, Haider said: "The choice is really hard for me. Both have been at war with international law and committed human rights violations. The one is lucky enough to command a world power, hence the power to write the laws, while the other has been a weak dictator"”	Jörg Haider

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Operation Black Dog	article	2000	David Guyatt	The story of a US covert, airborne biological weapons attack on Iraq during the first US-Iraq war of 1990
File:The Secret Behind the Sanctions.pdf	Article		Thomas J. Nagy	The targeting of the water supply of Iraq by the sanctions following the war.
Document:Iraq 1990-91	book extract	2003	William Blum

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