powell briefing - key points, page-14

re: powell briefing - to tarton Hi T,

Just checked the URL you gave, and it is indeed a bit interesting. Thanks for posting it.

For others, it's from The Guardian and, FWIW, is copied below.

Make of it what you will.

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Analysis

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No casus belli? Invent one!

As Colin Powell presents evidence to the UN to justify war, Maggie O'Kane argues that the US's justification for the first Gulf war does not bear scrutiny

Wednesday February 5, 2003

In 1990 as the US prepared for its first war with Iraq there was heavy reliance on the use of "classified" satellite photographs purporting to show that in September 1990 - a month after the invasion of Kuwait - 265,000 Iraqi soldiers and 1,500 tanks were massing on the border to gear up to invade Saudi Arabia. The threat of Saddam aggressively expanding his empire to Saudi Arabia was crucial to the decision to go to war, but the satellite pictures were never made public.
Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2 1990. The US cabinet met the same day. At that point, war was no more than a possibility. Norman Schwarzkopf recalls the prevailing mood in his autobiography, It Doesn't Take a Hero. He quotes General Colin Powell's remark to him: "I think we could go to war if they invaded Saudi Arabia. I doubt if we would go to war over Kuwait." .......

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BUT there is lots more!!!

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It's happened again!

I tried to post the full article ('cause I thought open-minded people should at least have the chance to read it) and I get

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The world is going mad. ...... IMO!

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