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...deal is a testament to America's quick marketing abilities. Scarcely two months after American troops began arriving in the Persian Gulf, one of the marketing whizzes at Bloomingdales, the expensive department store chain, had devised "Operation Desert Shield from Home...
...more to do with the numbing of our senses to the seriousness of what is going on "over there." The G.I. care-packages are not Bloomies' display of "New Kids on the Block" paraphernalia, to be sold to over-zealous preteens wanting to emulate their idols. Operation Desert Shield is the real thing, and it isn't for sale...
...package? If Blooming-dales really wanted to make a patriotic contribution to the men and women at the front, it could have used its resources to send any gifts (children's letters, bibles, souvenirs from home), not just $60, high profit-margin ones, to Saudi Arabia. "Operation Desert Shield from Home" is, in all honesty, callous...
...that can constitutionally declare war--the United States Congress. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the sole power to declare war, yet members of Congress don't even seem concerned with preserving this Constitutional prerogative. And Bush has been all too willing to run Operation Desert Shield without their input...
WHEN he first ordered the deployment of United States troops to Saudi Arabia on August 9, Bush was hailed for his wisdom and boldness by the American public, by allies, even by Congress. But the early days of Desert Shield are gone, and in his do-it-alone approach to dealing with Saddam Hussein and in shaping what he calls a "new world order," Bush has flagrantly expanded his role as Commander-in-Chief. He's trying to run this one alone...