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...Pentagon documents in his possession, dated 1990, was headed, "A strategic force for 1990 and beyond." He said the second document, titled "Global Reach-Global Power," discussed ways the United States could obtain mineral resources from Third World countries, using the specific example of Iraq and Kuwait...
Sheehan also described an Arab summit shortly before the war, in which the foreign minister of Kuwait confronted Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz. According to Sheehan, Aziz responded that Kuwait should be careful because Iraq possessed documents which revealed that Kuwait and the U.S. had purposely goaded Iraq...
...Bush's fault, since the "United States caused a revolt." Let's not look at the underlying causes of the revolt (i.e., Saddam's ruthless reign). It's all Bush's fault that we devastated the Iraqi army. Let's not put any blame on the man who invaded Kuwait, mutilated its people and failed to respond to our ample warnings...
Second, Bush would encounter some serious problems using international law to legitimate American intervention in a civil war. You say that Bush does not respect international law in the first place because Allied forces occupied 15 percent of Iraq. Perhaps you would have preferred a straight-forward invasion of Kuwait without a flanking movement. If we had, you would never have written this article--we would still be fighting under such a strategy...
Third, you do not recognize the serious risk involved in embroiling our forces in a civil war. Not only would this require some nasty fighting, it would also ensure our presence in Iraq for an indefinite time to come. Instead of simply freeing Kuwait and getting out (as Bush originally promised), the United States would become directly responsible for the government and destiny of the Iraqi nation...