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Antiwar activists believed that America was all too willing to send its poor and its people of color to die in the Arabian desert. George Bush and the rest of the rich white men in policy-making positions have no problem sending Blacks to kill browns for the benefit of whites. The all-volunteer force is a sham, since economic factors have forced the poorer, Blacker sections of America to sign up in disproportionately high numbers. As in Vietnam, the body bags will again carry home the remains of the politically disempowered underclass...
...these privileged young men and women truly believe the national interest demands that American blood be shed in the Arabian desert, they should not shy away from doing their duty to America. If the nation's interest is truly served by Desert Storm, then all of the nation's young men should equally serve and suffer to see it through. That means universal conscription...
Perhaps the strategic importance of maintaining the relatively pro-Western Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian regimes outweighed their poor treatment of their citizens. But in light of the abysmal human rights record Hafez el-Assad, America's warming relations with Syria are totally unacceptable. To cut off the hand of the Butcher of Baghdad, we have fallen into the arms of the Devil of Damascus...
...Despite recent peace initiatives, all eyes are on the Arabian desert as the beginning of a ground war approaches. A high-ranking French official said Iraq would be given until today to respond to the Soviet peace proposal. President Bush did not make any public comment on the war yesterday...
...communique said: "The first step required from Iraq-that is the withdrawal--must be coupled with the withdrawal from the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf" of the allied forces that rushed to the region after the invasion of Kuwait...