General Discussion

Poppy Doc Bush may’ve used the Iraq War to knock the S&L crisis and his son Neil’s Silverado off the front pages. And the run-up to the First Gulf War needed all manner of Big Lies to succeed in influencing the American people into supporting an illegal, unnecessary and ultimately disastrous war on a country that had done nothing to hurt the U.S.A.



Remember April Glaspie, our acting ambassador, said to Saddam (paraphrase from memory): "We have no position on Arab-Arab border disputes." Not her fault Saddam was so stupid to think that was a green light to invade. Later, when Saddam offered to withdraw, James Baker said, "Too late. We're gonna have a war."

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Of course, before that, Pruneface Ron sent special envoy Donald Rumsfeld to make nice with Saddam, show the Butcher of Baghdad he was our friend in the fight with Iran, whom we also were helping at the time, apparently payback for that favor involving all the hostages before the election in 1980. Poppy even fixed things so the USDA paid Iraq billions of dollars in agricultural credits to free up some dough for Iraqi arms purchases.

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Then, when Poppy Bush couldn't drum up enough support to go to war over Iraq's invasion of the Kuwait oil patch, he lied to the American people. Praise the ammunition and pass the Hill & Knowlton.

This history is disappearing from the GOOGLE nowadays. For details: https://www.prwatch.org/node/25/print