Word: kuwait
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Which man was fired and had a U.S. Senator declare that he should be tried for treason? Not the guy who painted an electronic bull's-eye on a group of soldiers (though Rivera was moved from the front lines to Kuwait). It was Arnett, one of the few remaining American TV reporters in Baghdad, because he offered boneheaded punditry--not substantively different from boneheaded punditry all around the American media--to the wrong interviewer. Nor were decorated officers safe from scrutiny. At a Pentagon briefing, General Richard Myers blasted retired generals serving as news analysts for criticizing the Pentagon...
...Garner and his operation are a government-in-waiting--a few hundred former generals, aid workers and diplomats standing by in Kuwait, awaiting Saddam's defeat. Once that happens, they will cross the border to become the nerve center of postwar Iraq. Advance teams are ready to move in as early as this week. Garner plans to establish three administrative centers--in Baghdad, Mosul and Basra--that will supervise humanitarian relief and reconstruction, keep the oil flowing, purge Saddam loyalists from Iraqi government agencies and set in motion the most difficult of U.S. war aims: the establishment of democratic institutions...
What did happen in 1991? It's a sad story of false hopes and serious miscalculations. After the U.S. evicted Iraqi forces from Kuwait, George Herbert Walker Bush had no intention of marching the U.S. Army to Baghdad to topple Saddam. He had promised the Arabs in the war coalition that he would push Saddam's army back into Iraq--that...
...months before the 3rd Infantry Division crossed the border from Kuwait, Special Forces teams entered the Iraq. One of their primary missions was to establish the conditions and train fighters for a revolt in the Shia areas in the south of the country. But they failed to spark the anticipated revolt. In retrospect, it's easy to see why; the Shia have been burned before by what they thought were U.S. promises of support. A Shia rebellion against Saddam in the aftermath of the first Gulf War was brutally suppressed, and no one here, remembering the tens of thousands killed...
...promote an Arab renaissance throughout the Middle East. Saddam turned Iraq's branch of that party into a front organization serving his Tikrit family mafia and his own Stalinist cult of personality. And that inevitably produced the bungling that led Iraq into the disastrous wars with Iran, Kuwait and the United States. Nasser lost a chunk of Egypt; Saddam lost all of Iraq...