Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Would it be seemly to have a moment of silence for the Iraqi corpses...
...make him alien, to make him Other, a different species. When we have done that, we have prepared ourselves to kill him, for to kill the Other, to kill a snake, a roach, a pest, a Jew, a scorpion, a black, a centipede, a Palestinian, a hyena, an Iraqi, a wild dog, an Israeli...
Like some martial equivalent of the Reagan years, the victory in the gulf makes Americans feel better about themselves. It was splendid and necessary but also unreal -- an action-adventure that, like most movies, was divided into three chapters, with decisive turning points: 1) the Iraqi invasion and the buildup of coalition forces; 2) the onset of the air war; and 3) the ground war and its denouement. The victory came with such merciless ease that on the winners' side, the deeper levels of experience (nobility, sacrifice, endurance and so on) were not engaged. The victors now celebrate mostly their...
...August, the Bush Administration has tried to make Glaspie, then the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, the scapegoat for Washington's prewar policy of appeasing Saddam Hussein. That was easy to do, since Glaspie was prohibited from giving her version of the infamous meeting she had in Baghdad with the Iraqi dictator a week before the invasion. Iraq leaked a doctored transcript in September quoting Glaspie as saying that the U.S. had "no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait." Since only the Iraqis had a transcript, Glaspie could offer no documentary evidence that contradicted Saddam...
...allowed her to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she proved to be the best witness for her defense. Articulate and direct, Glaspie insisted that Iraq had "maliciously" edited the transcript "to the point of inaccuracy." A "great deal" in the Iraqi record was accurate, she conceded, but her stern warnings that the U.S. would not tolerate the use of force against Kuwait had been deleted. She said she described those warnings in a confidential cable she sent to the State Department immediately after the meeting. If U.S. officials had made...