While Trotsky may have disparaged the use of anecdotes in his History, Ridenour, who spent eight years living in Cuba (he burned his passport and renounced his US citizenship after the US launched the Gulf War against Iraq, throwing the ashes at the US Interest Section compound in..…

Indeed, the chief importance of U.S. military power from the early Cold War years to today has been that it is used—either directly, resulting in millions of deaths (counting those who died in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the Afghanistan..…

The U.S. threw its entire panoply of weapons against the Iraqi military, including its own favored chemical weapon--shells tipped with depleted uranium, which had poisoned Iraq's people during and after the first Gulf War. ... 'Iraq's WMD program was essentially destroyed in 1991,'..…

Congress authorized the use of force before each of the major wars since the cold war (the 1991 Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq). In the Gulf War and Iraq, however, very large forces had been deployed to the region long before the vote, making it..…

In July 2007, Helene Cooper of The New York Times reported that “Bush administration officials are voicing increasing anger at what they say has been Saudi Arabia’s counterproductive role in the Iraq war.” . Most disturbingly, the administration learned that the Saudis were urging..…

Taken together Middle East missile arsenal -- divided among such countries as Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Israel and Saudi Arabia -- numbers thousand missiles.. Among developments since Persian Gulf War, North Korea is selling Scud-C, its more deadly version of Soviet-designed..…

The only piece of information new to Larcom was Bush's claim that Iraq is rebuilding its capacity, there are other ways to create world besides disarming Iraq... By destroying their infrastructure, Bush said America is friend to Iraq, and since Gulf war, we have killed..…

We're still at war in Iraq. Our budget deficits are out of control, and we still have neighbors along the Gulf Coast who need help picking up the pieces after those terrible hurricanes,' Mikulski said. . ..…

Bush press Ari Fleischer, in one of Freudian slips of the administration, referred to Iraq War in press conference as Operation Iraqi Liberation .. But Bush realized Persian Gulf countries had neither the will nor the capacity to increase their output and protect its outward..…

You might have hoped that one thing that U.S mainstream press and pundits would have learned from Iraq War not to mention other misguided group think going back to Tonkin Gulf resolution and beyond is that U.S government is not always right in its assessments. ..…

He criticized Reagan's intervention in the Gulf War between Iraq and Iran for risking 'our boys' in an ill-defined mission. ..…

On many national security issues, especially the war in Iraq, internal partisan fissures are overshadowed by the vast gulf dividing Republicans and Democrats. ..…