New
York Times, 28 February 1991
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Flashback
to 1991: "Kuwait freed, Iraqis crushed"
compiled by Cem Ertür
28 February 2014
"
The [1991] war on Iraq
was portrayed in the U.S. as a war without casualties. Yet, on the
first day of air strikes against Iraq (Jan. 17, 1991), the U.S. dropped
explosives equivalent to the explosive power of the Atomic bomb dropped
on Hiroshima. Throughout the duration of the bombing, explosives
equivalent to seven nuclear bombs were dropped, in addition to
internationally banned biological and chemical weapons."
[
Burning
the cradle of civilization
by B. J. Sabri, 23 July 2006]
U.S.
President George Bush, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
and NATO Secretary-General Manfred Wörner hold
a joint press
conference four days after
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, White
House, Washington D.C., 6 August 1990U.S.
President George Bush meets
with Turkey's President Turgut Özal,
White
House, Washington D.C., 25 September 1990Turkish
leaders assured Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d yesterday
that US forces could use military bases here against President Saddam
Hussein of Iraq, US officials said. "Of course, we now have the use of
bases here in Turkey as a part of
agreements under the North Atlantic Alliance arrangements and
understandings," Baker told reporters before leaving Ankara for
Brussels, where he will hold talks with NATO officials today. Turkey is
one of the 16 members of the alliance. Baker said that "in the event
there were to be full-scale hostilities .
. . I'm quite confident we could count on our allies the Turks."
The United States maintains more than a dozen joint facilities with
Turkey [...] The most pivotal facility now is [NATO's
Incirlik Airbase] [...] near the town of Adana, 500 miles from Iraq,
where sophisticated American aircraft and about 2,400 US personnel are
stationed. It is the only tactical US air base between Italy and the
Far East and therefore would be essential in moving swiftly against
Iraq.
[excerpt from: Turkey would
support us in
case of war, Baker says
by Adam Pertman, Boston Globe, 10 August 1990]
"Kuwaiti
nurse Nayirah" gives a fabricated testimony to the
Congressional Human Rights Caucus, U.S. Congress,
Washington D.C., 10 October 1990
A
tearful 15-year
old ‘Kuwaiti’ girl tells the story, before the U.S.
Congressional Caucus on
Human Rights, that gun-wielding Iraqi Arab soldiers had removed Kuwaiti
Arab
babies from their incubators and left them on the floor of a Kuwait
City
hospital to die. The transcripts of the shocking testimony were sent to
most
major news outlet throughout the West. The video-tapes of the hearing
were
‘leaked’ to several TV stations. Op-ed columnists
had a field day. The horrifying
tale was repeated again and again, ad nauseum, by the U.S. press in
particular, and
referred to by virtually every major American politician. [...]
It
turns out that the she was the daughter of one of the Emirs of Kuwait
and a member of the Kuwaiti ruling family. And this Emir was also, the
uh, Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. [Saud Nasir Al-Sabah.]
The
girl, known only by her first
name and fictive position (’Nurse Nayirah’), had
been previously coached by a team from Hill & Knowlton (then
the world’s largest PR firm). [...] Needless to
say, the girl’s testimony turned out to be completely false.
Not only was Nayirah not even a nurse anywhere and almost assuredly was
not in Kuwait when the Iraqis invaded, but it was later determined that
the hospital in question had not one incubator removed, nor were there
any actual reports of infant deaths at any Kuwait hospitals.
[excerpt
from: Incubator
babies, “stonings” & Amnesty
International’s dirty propaganda war
by Aion Essence, AlterNet, 25 September 2010]
U.S.
President George Bush gives a speech
to the U.S. troops on
Thanksgiving Day at the Military Airlift Command ramp
at Dhahran International Airport,
Saudi Arabia, 22 November 1990U.S.
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Chairman
of Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell,
U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney,
U.S. CENTCOM Commander Norman Schwarzkopf,
Lieutenant-General Calvin
Waller and Major-General Robert
Johnston, 1 December 1990U.S.
President George Bush speaks at a press
conference attended by the
ambassadors of 27 countries, White House,
Washington D.C., 17 December 1990Britain's
Prince Charles is greeted by a Saudi prince during a
pre-Christmas visit to the Navy, Army and Air Force units of
the
British Armed Forces in Saudi
Arabia, 23 December 1990Actress
Brooke Shields is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway during
a visit to the Persian Gulf sponsored by the
United Service Organizations, 1 January
1991U.S.
President George Bush meets
with Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to U.S.
Prince Bandar Bin Sultan the day after he announced
the end of the war on Iraq and the "liberation" of Kuwait,
White House,
Washington D.C., 28 February 1991U.S.
CENTCOM Commander Norman Schwarzkopf presents the "Legion of
Merit"
medal to United Arab Emirates' Chief
of Staff Muhammed Said Al-Badi for
his role during the war, 2 April 1991Prior
to "Operation Welcome Home" parade, New York Governor Mario Cuomo
and New York City Mayor David Dinkins
give keys to New York City
to U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, U.S. Chairman of Joint Chiefs of
Staff Colin
Powell
and U.S. CENTCOM Commander Norman
Schwarzkopf, New York City, 10 June 1991U.S.
President George Bush shakes hands with U.S. CENTCOM Commander
Norman
Schwarzkopf as Barbara Bush pins
the "Presidential Medal of
Freedom", White House, Washington D.C., 3 July
1991Blackened
corpses of Iraqi soldiers lay sprawled on a destroyed truck,
Iraq, 12 March 1991
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From
the archives:Burning
the cradle of civilization
by B. J. Sabri, Global Research, 23 July 2006
How
the U.S. engineered the
Iraqi holocaust
by B. J. Sabri, Uruknet, 1 June 2006
U.S. bombing: The myth of surgical bombing in the Gulf War
by Paul Walker, 8 June 1991
The massacre of withdrawing soldiers on "The highway of death"
by Joyce Chediac, 11 May 1991
U.S. conspiracy to initiate the war against Iraq
by Brian Becker, 11 May 1991
Initial Complaint Charging George Bush, J. Danforth Quayle, James
Baker, Richard Cheney, William Webster, Colin Powell, Norman
Schwarzkopf and Others to be named with Crimes Against Peace, War
Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity
by International War Crimes Tribunal, 9 May 1991
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