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Kerry has never been comfortable with such soaring slogans. During his early years in the Senate, his service in Vietnam made him a reluctant interventionist. He voted against the first Gulf War, accusing the elder Bush of "impatience with sanctions and diplomacy" and warning that the country "is not yet ready for what it will witness and bear" if it goes to war. In the 1990s Kerry backed the use of force in the Balkans but criticized President Clinton as "arrogant" for referring to the U.S. as "the indispensable nation." Kerry's biographer, historian Douglas Brinkley, says, "Kerry...
...degradation of these tribes was completed during the Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein, after quelling a rebellion of the Ma’dan (who are Shia Muslims), ordered the construction of a large canal and several dams that in effect were forced to abandon their homes and their culture...
...wars, WMD had also saved his neck. In the 1980s war with Iran, he concluded that chemical shells had repelled the enemy's human-wave attacks and that ballistic missiles had broken the will of its leaders. He was convinced that his readiness to use WMD during the Gulf War in 1991 had prevented the U.S.-led liberators of Kuwait from marching all the way to Baghdad to topple his regime. In a closed-door chat between Saddam and a senior aide just before the Gulf War began, the report says, he had ordered that "germ and chemical warheads...
WHAT WE THOUGHT THEN Although Iraq claimed in 1995 to have unilaterally destroyed its entire arsenal of anthrax, botulinum and other agents after the first Gulf War, the U.S. continued to insist that Saddam retained a large stockpile, along with mobile labs that could produce and store more agents...
WHAT WE THOUGHT THEN Intelligence officials were convinced that after the first Gulf War, Saddam had secretly retained a few dozen Scud-variant missiles, capable of traveling almost 600 miles, and was actively working to develop other long-range delivery systems...