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...punishable and who should be held responsible. Actions that breach the Geneva Conventions of 1949, to which Iraq is a signatory, are patently criminal: the use of civilians as human shields, the mistreatment of prisoners of war and the targeting of civilian populations. But was the polluting of the Persian Gulf during the second week of the conflict a war crime? There is room for doubt about the causes of the spill...
Certainly that is how Bush has come to see this war. Time and again, he made clear that for him, the rationale was not merely geopolitical; there was more at stake than Persian Gulf oil or, as James Baker once put it, American jobs. The President's critics, from Mikhail Gorbachev to protesters on the home front, were right when they accused him of having an objective that went beyond the United Nations mandate of expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait. For its Commander in Chief, Desert Storm became a moral crusade, targeted against a leader whose very regime...
...some "research" on recruitment of soldier-statesmen "can and will be done by the Republican National Committee," there is no central plan to court potential candidates -- at least not yet. Most of the effort, he says, is concentrated in local party organizations, which know "who's over in the Persian Gulf who might make a good candidate...
...good, and you sure as hell can do me harm." When an unidentified U.S. military commander in the Persian Gulf said this to New York Times reporter Malcolm W. Browne recently, he summed up the American military's anti-press attitude during the Gulf War. The incident was not an isolated...
...Cornell ban was recently repealed following requests by students flying American flags to show their support for U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf...