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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 211
from the Rumalia oil field. They also built structures, including military, in Iraqi territory.
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Prior to the Iran-Iraq war, Kuwait had encouraged Iraq to attack Iran and had provided Iraq $10
billion in loans during the war.
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When the war was over, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates
increased their oil production very significantly. They exceeded their production quotas and were
driving down oil prices. Iraq, who was financially strapped, lost $1 billion yearly for each $1
drop in the price of a barrel of oil.
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Prior to Iraq's invasion, they amassed significant numbers of troops and military
equipment along the Iraq-Kuwait border over an extended period of time. But Kuwait refused to
negotiate with Iraq. There is every indication that Kuwait's refusal to negotiate was based on US
advise.
Considering the above, it is quite incredible what President Bush told a joint session of
Congress on September 11, 1990. He stated, “following negotiations and promises by Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein not to use force, a powerful army invaded its trusting and much weaker
neighbor, Kuwait. Within three days, 120,000 troops with 850 tanks had poured into Kuwait and
moved south to threaten Saudi Arabia. It was then I decided to act to check that aggression.”
Not only did Bush provided false and misleading statements regarding negotiations with
Saddam, He apparently falsified intelligence regarding Iraqi troops amassing near the Saudi
Arabia border. According to Jean Heller of the St. Petersburg Times (Florida), Soviet satellite
photographs taken on the very day Bush addressed Congress showed a quite different scenario.
The photos showed there were no “evidence of Iraqi troops in Kuwait or massing along the
Kuwait-Saudi Arabian border. While the Pentagon was claiming as many as 250,000 Iraqi troops
in Kuwait, it refused to provide evidence that would contradict the Soviet satellite photos. US
forces, encampments, aircraft, camouflaged equipment dumps, staging areas and tracks across
the desert can easily be seen.” The St. Petersburg Times hired Peter Zimmerman to analyze the
photographs. Zimmerman is a former image specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency and
was a member of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Reagan Administration.
He stated:
We didn't find anything of that sort [i.e. comparable to the US buildup]
anywhere in Kuwait. We don't see any tent cities, we don't see congregations of
tanks, we can't see troop concentrations, and the main Kuwaiti air base appears
deserted. It's five weeks after the invasion, and from what we can see, the Iraqi air
force hasn't flown a single fighter to the most strategic air base in Kuwait. There
is no infrastructure to support large numbers of people. They have to use toilets,
or the functional equivalent. They have to have food.... But where is it?
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A 15-year old girl testified before Congress under anonymity because of fear of reprisal
about Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait. She said, with tears in her eyes that she was a volunteer in a
hospital in Kuwaiti City and that Iraqi soldiers came in yanked 15 newborn babies out of hospital
incubators and left them on the cold floor to die. The media widely covered the account and
President Bush repeatedly seized on it as a pretext for war. The American public were incensed
and rallied in support of the war.
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