...Ritter who were trying to tell us it was all lies. So the media is ashamed to remind us what a horrible, falling-face-down job they did on this topic. The other reason is that if they covered the story of...

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...to regret that he had been left in power. Many Iraqis regretted it, partly because the United Nations sanctions against Saddam were impoverishing their country. The sanctions had been imposed to ensure that...

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...most of the Kuwaiti Armed Forces were either overrun by the Iraqi Republican Guard or escaped to neighbouring Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The state of Kuwait was abolished, and Saddam announced in a few days that it...

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...those countries to support Iraq. However, Hussein's gamble failed, as Israel reluctantly accepted a U.S. demand to remain out of the conflict to avoid inflaming tensions. The Iraqi armed forces were quickly...

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...verbally attacking the Saudi kingdom . He argued that the U.S.-supported Saudi state was an illegitimate and unworthy guardian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He combined the language of the Islamist...

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...in history. In only a span of 80 hours, Barksdale B-52s and support personnel deployed forward to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, carried out the strike against Iraqi targets and returned to Guam. Fourteen...

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...caused the coalition mission to fail. However the former British ambassador to Tehran, Sir Richard Dalton, today criticised the comments as a "piece of spin". Dalton claimed Blair, now a Middle East peace...

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...up to 24 villages in Kurdish areas in April 1987. Before the war ended the Iraqis moved in on the ground and completely destroyed the town. In the mountains to the wast of Halabja, the Kurdish...

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...and battled Iranian forces for Kermanshah. Iran smashed them with their counter offensive: Operation Mersad, which was led by Brigadier-General Ali Sayad Shirazi. In 1989, Shirazi was awarded the highest...

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...to the crisis. Pressed on whether he had actually considered quitting the Cabinet rather than support military action, he said: "Did I ever think 'I'm going to resign over this'? No, I didn't. But in the...

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...suggested that Sadaam Hussein attacked the U.S. on 9/11. She also lied about her support of the infamous "bridge to nowhere," according to the book. Palin's addition to the Fox News team is right-wing bias.

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...or killed or even threatened (his words) any American. I never quite know whether Moore is as ignorant as he looks, or even if that would be humanly possible." Hitchens writes that Palestinian terrorists Muhammad...

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...she believed that Saddam Hussein had attacked the United States on 9/11. Mr. O'Reilly told her that Fox would be her place for rebuttal. "Anytime you want to set the record straight, we're here," he said. "Oh,"...

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...did. She also said she believed Saddam Hussein attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001." Where'd they find her? Well, on the Internet, as it happens. "McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, spotted Sarah...

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...such as Saudi Arabia. As stories of atrocities from the occupation of Kuwait spread, several of which later proved false, older atrocities and his WMD arsenal were also given attention. Iraq's nuclear weapons...

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...were the reason to attack Iraq? *Did the Bush administration threaten, tacitly or otherwise, to withdraw American investment from the UK if it did not support the invasion? * Why was there no strategy to...

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...and occupied the nation of Kuwait. The United States, along with the United Nations, condemned this action and called for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait by 15 January 1991. Iraq did not comply. The 525 TFS...

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...in the final months of its war with Iraq. Van Anraat was Iraq's sole supplier of a chemical called TDG, or thiodiglycol, for its mustard gas production program. Judges said he knew the chemicals might well...

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...Iran and started an almost decade-long war. Since Saddam's ouster, however, both countries have had Shi'ite-led governments, a rarity in the mostly Sunni Middle East. But their border remains in dispute. The...

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...at Iran, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Israel. His regime once ordered the killing of every person between the ages of 15 and 70 in certain Kurdish villages in Northern Iraq. He has gassed many Iranians and 40 Iraqi...

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