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...Gonzalez '93. "We have to get Saddam Hussein out. I think [this war is] about more than oil. It's about freedom and about peace. I have a brother who is in the Airborne. He definitely believes in what he is doing. I'm wearing a little yellow ribbon to support the troops and everybody should...
Over the past week, the group, called the Yellow Ribbon Coalition, has handed out some 750 feet worth of yellow ribbon to students around the University...
Funke, who handed out 200 feet of yellow ribbon at the Eliot house dining room Saturday night, says he made a special effort to emphasize the apolitical nature of the ribbons, displaying a poster that encouraged students to "show support for the safety of U.S. troops in the Gulf...
IDON'T have any problem expressing support for the troops in the Gulf. Some of my best friends, as they say, are soldiers, and I wear a yellow ribbon on my coat in their honor. Nor do I have any problem with patriotism in general. Where I come from, an American flag flew in front of nearly every house long before Aug. 2, and military service is held in highest esteem...
Such sentiments were buttressed by the testimony of a chorus of blue-ribbon experts, including seven former Defense Secretaries and two former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who all counseled temperance. No witness was more compelling than the government's own William Webster, director of the CIA, who, to the amazement of many, departed from the Administration's line when he projected that the embargoes would begin to bog down Saddam's military in three to nine months...