--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Minette wrote: > > > > >Let me get this straight. You are accusing Powell > of fabricating evidence? > > > Well.... (this is the article that Rich ghosted) > > No casus belli? Invent one! > > As Colin Powell presents evidence to the UN to > justify war, Maggie > O'Kane argues that the US's justification for the > first Gulf war does > not bear scrutiny > > Wednesday February 5, 2003
Uhh - this is absurd. It's true that the US government (among many others) was tricked by various efforts. I know from talking to people involved with the decision that the fear of an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia was real, but that's neither here nor there. The US's justification for the first Gulf War was that _Iraq invaded Kuwait_. A country (Iraq) invaded another sovereign country (Kuwait), annexed its territory, tortured and killed large numbers of its citizens, and then refused to leave even after a vote by the UN Security Council condemning it. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to respond to, actually. Were there particular mistakes in intelligence? Of course there were. There's a reason that the CIA's reports are called National Intelligence _Estimates_. But how does that affect the real reasons for the war? Unless someone is claiming that Iraq did not, in fact, invade Kuwait, what is the point of this? Gautam __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
