"Poppy"
George Herbert Walker Bush
"To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our
coalition,
turning the whole Arab world against us
and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero
... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt
for a securely entrenched dictator
and condemning them to fight
in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war.
It could only plunge that part of the world
into even greater instability."
A World Transformed (1998)
George Herbert Walker Bush
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"What
We Say, Goes!"
How Bush Sr. Sold The Bombing Of Iraq
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by
Mitchel Cohen, December 28, 2002
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 "The
U.S. Has A New Credibility. What We Say Goes."
President George Bush, NBC Nightly News, Feb. 2, 1991
In
October, 1990, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, identified only as
Nayirah, appeared in Washington before the House of
Representatives' Human Rights Caucus. She testified that Iraqi
soldiers who had invaded Kuwait on August 2nd tore hundreds of
babies from hospital incubators and killed them.
Television
flashed her testimony around the world. It electrified opposition
to Iraq's president, Saddam Hussein, who was now portrayed by
U.S. president George Bush not only as "the Butcher of Baghdad"
but -- so much for old friends -- "a tyrant worse than Hitler."
How
Bush Sr. Sold The Bombing Of Iraq Continued
This
Time I'm Scared
US Propaganda Fuelled The First Gulf War.
It Will Fuel This One Too - And The Risks Are Even Greater
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