Did Bush I bait Saddam into attacking Kuwait in order to push his

[KlatooBNikto]

long term agenda against Arab countries? I remember news reports of that era that Ambassador Glaspie specifically told Saddam that the U.S. would have no objection if Iraq attacked Kuwait to settle a long simmering oil dispute.Apparently, Iraq was accusing Kuwait of using deep drilling techniques to tap into Iraq's oil fields near the border. That led to the first Gulf War.

Because whenever a Bush is in power, transparency and accountability are the first victims, we are left to guess at reasons with bits and pieces of information instead of having it clearly explained by people in power as expected in a democracy.Like Norman Mailer has said"such a government would demand a modicum of honesty on the part of the rulers".That is the victim of the many years of misrule by the Bush leaguers.

[bpilgrim]

1. yes

Final Judgment:
International War Crimes Tribunal

The members of the International War Crimes Tribunal, meeting in New York, have carefully considered the Initial Complaint of the Commission of Inquiry dated May 6, 1991 against President George H. W. Bush, Vice President J. Danforth Quayle, Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf Commander of the Allied Forces in the Persian Gulf, and others named in the Complaint charging them with nineteen separate crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the First Protocol thereto, and other international agreements and customary international law:

having the right and obligation as citizens of the world to sit in judgment regarding violations of international humanitarian law;

having heard the testimony from various Commissions of Inquiry hearings held within their own countries and/or elsewhere during the past year and having received reports from numerous other Commission hearings which recite the evidence there gathered;

having been provided with documentary evidence, eyewitness statements, photos, videotapes, special reports, expert analyses and summaries of evidence available to the Commission; having access to all evidence, knowledge, and expert opinion in the Commission files or available to the Commission;

having been provided by the Commission, or elsewhere obtained, various books, articles, and other written materials on various aspects of events and conditions in the Persian Gulf and military and arms establishments;

having considered newspaper coverage, magazine and periodical reports, special publications, T.V., radio, and other media coverage and public statements by the accused, other public officials and other public materials;

having heard the presentations of the Commission of Inquiry in public hearing on February 29, 1992, the testimony and evidence there presented; and having met, considered and deliberated with each other and with Commission staff and having considered all the evidence that is relevant to the nineteen charges of criminal conduct alleged in the Initial Complaint make the following findings.

Findings

The members of the International War Crimes Tribunal finds each of the named accused Guilty on the basis of the evidence against them and that each of the nineteen crimes alleged in the Initial Complaint, attached hereto, has been established to have been committed beyond a reasonable doubt.

The members believe that it is imperative if there is ever to be peace that power be accountable for its criminal acts and we condemn in the strongest possible terms those found guilty of the charges herein. We urge the Commission of Inquiry and all people to act on recommendations developed by the Commission to hold power accountable and to secure social justice on which lasting peace must be based.


more...
http://www.deoxy.org/wc/

[KlatooBNikto]

2. Thank you.A great resource.

[ClintonTyree]

5. Now you know why...................

Bush won't sign on to a World Court. The actions of our Republican governed administrations are against many world laws, but Republicans see themselves above the law. They make the rules, they do not answer to anyone. THEY are criminals in the eyes of the world. Is it any wonder that terrorists are trying to kill us? Is it any wonder why the world despises us? We're the playground bully, but one thing is certain, bullies always get their due in the end. We are now paying the price for that empirical hubris.

[swag]

3. I remember April Glaspie, and how she told Saddam that the US

considered the Iraq-Kuwait matter a "border dispute" to be left between the two nations, thereby greenlighting Saddam.

I also remember Bush I testily badgering the American people to support his war because it was "about jobs. About oil." How much candor can people take? A lot when they're not listening, I guess.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. IMHO, Poppy was also making the decisions when he was VP....

...under Reagan. Think about all of the acts for which we blame Reagan, and then take a good look at Poppy's background...who do you think was most likely to perpetrate the acts attributed to Reagan?

Additionally, I always believed that the assassination attempt on Reagan was a little too convenient. I believe that it was actually an attempt to give Poppy the official reins of power.

[KlatooBNikto]

6. You may have a point.I even suspect that the Iran-Contra affair was

a diversionary tactic to hide the Bush role in drug trade through the Panamanian dictator. When Noriega made the mistake of pocketing the money himself, Bush had to move against him to teach that tinhorn dictator a lesson.So, on and on it goes.

[DemonFighterLives]

7. The entire Gulf War 1 and 2 are a boondoggle

The whole story of Iraqi's massing on the Saudi Arabian border was a lie. The incubator babies was a lie. The side drilling from Kuwait probably was true and any oil loving person like W or his daddy could have thought to try that one.

[wishlist]

8. This was certainly part of Kerry's vote to not authorize first Gulf war

American public still doesn't realize complicity of Reagan and Bush in arming and strengthening Saddam because he was secular and they thought he would cooperate more with U.S. aims in Middle East compared to the fundamentalist leadership of Iran.