The March 1988 Iraqi attacks on the Kurdish town of Halabja — where Iraq government forces massacred upwards of 5,000 civilians by gassing them with chemical weapons — was downplayed by the Ronald Reagan administration, even to the point of leaking phony intelligence claiming..…
Bush sent U.S. military forces into Iraq in 1991, commentator Pat Buchanan, who had previously worked for presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, warned that once the United States became entangled in the Middle East, it would be difficult to ever extricate ourselves from the..…
But I also noticed that under Bush Jr, people were being taken for suckers Iraq, 11, the anthrax attacks, the economy, the weapons of mass destruction Iraq, the war on terror, etc. It's true, I know, that the same happened under the presidency of Ronald Reagan, and he was..…
Rubin, as Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary boasted of how he had turned Ronald Reagan’s deficits into budget surpluses, but by 2004 spending on the Iraq War and tax cuts by Bush had led to a record deficit of $568 billion. ..…
Instead of acknowledging its in stoking the flames of revolt, Carter and Ronald Reagan administrations partnered with dictator than Shah, Saddam Hussein in neighboring Iraq, as it attempted to thwart Iran's Islamic Republic. ..…
This true from Harry Truman (the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombs) to Dwight Eisenhower (POW death camps in Europe, the saturation bombing of all of North Korea and approval of a US-backed invasion of Cuba), to John Kennedy (the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and other CIA sabotage of that nation), to Lyndon..…
This true from Harry Truman (the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombs) to Dwight Eisenhower (POW death camps in Europe, the saturation bombing of all of North Korea and approval of a US-backed invasion of Cuba), to John Kennedy (the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and other CIA sabotage of that nation), to Lyndon..…
Abrams organized bloody rightwing coups, death squads and mercenaries in Central America in the 1980s for the [Ronald] Reagan administration and was a key architect of the Iraq War. . ..…
A former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire. . . . . . Hide 11 comments . 11 Responses to Trump Treats Iraq Like a Conquered Province . ..…
Then, at least according to MSM accounts, the Iranian people suddenly overthrew the Shah and installed their dictatorship under Ayatollah Khomeini, holding dozens of U.S. embassy personnel hostage until subsequently released after some shady dealings with Ronald Reagan’s electoral..…
President Ronald Reagan designated the regime “a state sponsor of terrorism” and in 1981 threw his weight behind Iraq’s invasion of Iran in a war that lasted nearly a decade and devastated the country. ..…
Abrams, 71, is best known for abetting dictators and Latin America and for his in Iran- Contra during Ronald Reagan administration, and for his ardent support for the invasion of Iraq and for green-lighting Venezuela while serving in George W. ..…
The Carter Doctrine set the United States on the course of increased military intervention in the Middle East in general and Iraq in particular. Carter’s successor Ronald Reagan continued funding and arming the Islamic fundamentalist forces in Afghanistan, including the founder of..…
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Furthermore, why has the U.S. government, armed (and ostensibly safe) with thousands of nuclear weapons, been so worried about Iraq, Iran, and North Korea acquiring them? ... Beginning in 1983, Ronald Reagan―under fierce public criticism for his nuclear buildup and disturbed..…
Ronald Reagan did too. . . U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup . . By: Michael Dobbs . ... The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous items that had both military and civilian applications, including..…
Thus, the citizenry should back the nascent sensible comments and proceed with optimism, hoping that Trump pulls Ronald Reagan and reverses his hawkish ways favor of negotiation. He is the author of memoir and critical analysis of Iraq War, Ghostriders of Baghdad Soldiers,..…
But U.S was anything and concerned with the victims of Hussein's crimes when the deaths occurred his victims were pawns in game between U.S and Iraq.. The missing pages implicated twenty-four U.S based corporations and the Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr with the illegal..…
As vice president under Ronald Reagan, one of his chief tasks was to oversee the administration’s support for Iraq. ..…
Bush served and led United States into the conflict with Iraq, mission known as Desert Storm.. He served as U.S., U.S ambassador, as CIA director, then president to President Ronald Reagan for eight years before being elected president, where he would win war against..…
he entered politics, serving in US House of Representatives and as chief of Central Intelligence Agency before being elected Ronald Reagan's vice president.. Bush was stalwart who declared a new world order in 1990 and drove Iraq from Kuwait in matter of weeks with lightning air..…
The Mr Bush, the son of senator, rose through the political ranks from congressman to UN ambassador, Republican Party to envoy to China, CIA director to two-term president under Ronald Reagan.. George Bush and junior are the second only father and son to lead the US After Iraq..…
This occurred roughly 17 months after Saddam’s invasion of Iran, while Iraqi forces were occupying the oil-rich southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan that Iraq sought to annex. In December 1983, President Ronald Reagan dispatched Donald Rumsfeld as a presidential envoy to..…
This occurred roughly 17 months after Saddam’s invasion of Iran, while Iraqi forces were occupying the oil-rich southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan that Iraq sought to annex. In December 1983, President Ronald Reagan dispatched Donald Rumsfeld as a presidential envoy to..…
ALBANY, N.Y - The recent statement by Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri that Iraq was not opposed to dialogue with United States has gone unreported, largely because there seems to be no desire on the part of Bush for resolution to the rapidly worsening crisis with Iraq.. Richard Perle, secretary..…
The men who Ronald Reagan called 'freedom fighters' later came together as al-Qaeda. . During the occupation of Iraq, U.S. officials encouraged the sectarian division between Sunni and Shia Muslims--as a divide-and-conquer strategy against the threat of a united resistance targeting..…
The Iraq War is an obvious cautionary tale but so too is Ronald Reagan’s shelling of Lebanon in 1983, as Ann Wright recalls. . . ..…
Virtually all the exchanges I had with my old friend Bill Odom, the three-star general who had run the NSA for Ronald Reagan, had concerned the Iraq War and risk it might spread to Iran, as well as the bitter anger he felt toward Bush’s perversion of his beloved NSA into an..…
George Herbert Walker Bush, a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency who became President courtesy of being picked as Ronald Reagan’s Vice President, was the last restrained U.S. ... When Bush the First attacked Iraq it was a limited operation, the goal of which was..…
(In perceiving the Soviet Union as permanent, orderly, and legitimate, Kissinger shared a failure of analysis with the rest of the foreign-policy elite -- notably excepting the scholar and former head of the State Department's policy-planning staff George Kennan, the Harvard historian Richard Pipes, the..…