Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Letter To The New York Times

The text of the "Good War" in 1991 is devoted to mistakes in its operation. A bigger question is whether this "war of necessity" had to be fought at all. The article reads that Iraq's attack had "caught the White House flat footed despite intelligence warning of the Iraqi's military preparations." This ignores the fact for the better part of the month preceding the invasion Saddam Hussein had been telling the world, including the American Ambassador April Glaspie, of his plans and had his troops on the Kuwaiti border for days preceding the invasion. We can only guess at President George H.W. Bush's motive for not warning Saddam of our response. His popularity in the war's aftermath was such that had Saddam acted a year later he would probably have won reelection in a landslide.

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