The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 368
Sampling of public opinion 011 the Gulf War "Damage to civilian structures and interests, invariably described by (U. S. ) briefers during the war as 'collateral' and unintended was sometimes neither. . . . . . (Coalition forces) deliberately did great harm lo Iraq's ability to support itself as an industrial society. " "The worst civilian suffering," senior Pentagon officer told the Post, "resulted not from bombs that went astray but from precision guided weapons that hit exactly where they were aimed - at electrical plants, oil refineries and transportation networks. Each of these targets was acknowledged during the war, but all the purposes and consequences of their destruction was not divulged. " Yet we persevere in our cruelty. As if the renewed horrors being committed by Saddam himself against Shia Muslims and Kurds within Iraq weren't enough; as if the devastation to the country from the kind of war "we" fought against the Iraqi people weren't enough; still the Gang of 7 insists on continuing sanctions against Iraq. The clear result? "The embargo doesn 'I touch Saddam or the people around him", one shopkeeper told a Canadian journalist. "All you are doing is starving us. " Yes, the Iraqi war produced another famous victory. But this time we know precisely what good came of it. • Gerald Caplan is a former national secretary of the New Democratic Party and a public affairs consultant. The Calgary Sunday SUN Sunday July 19, 1992 SADDAM HAUNTS U. S. ELECTIONS By Eric Margolis in Washington ". . . . . . Earlier this month, the CIA apparently tried to stage a coup against Saddam using disgruntled Iraqi army officers. It failed miserably. . . . . . Democrats charge: Reagan secretly built up Saddam's power during the long Iran-Iraq war from 1980-1988. In the ensuing years up to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush knew about or covertly aided Saddam's secret nuclear and chemical programs. The administration 368