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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...
...Iraqis wielded the fire weapon, too, setting more than 140 oil wells ablaze in Kuwait, U.S. military officials said. Blankets of black smoke spread through the desert skies...
...Marine was killed and five others were wounded yesterday in an artillery duel across the border, the U.S. command reported. Twenty Americans have been killed in action in Operation Desert Storm, 30 are listed as missing and nine as prisoners...
Last week The Crimson printed a letter we wrote about a sign saying "USA: Love it or Leave it," which we attributed to the Students United for Desert Storm (SUDS) rally. We had based our information on a Crimson article about the SUDS rally, which we did not attend; regrettably, however, we accidentally confused this article with an adjacent article about a rally in Boston at which this sign was displayed...
...Desert Storm commander Gen. Schwarzkopf said the Iraqi army was "on the verge of collapse." Other U.S. officers said they still predict a bloody ground...