Obama toasts Poppy Bush: 'We are surely a kinder and gentler nation because of you'

[HardTimes99]

45. When historians 100 years from now go back and examine the record, they will

find that GHW Bush was remarkably blase on Iraq's invasion of Kuwait . . . until he met with Margaret Thatcher (in Colorado for some high-level entretien, if memory serves). I've always wondered whether Thatcher snapped a knot in Bush, Sr.'s tail about disciplining her former colonial possession and teaching it a lesson about being an uppity Arab.

This is, of course, after the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ms. April Glaspie, was caught on tape informing Saddam Hussein that the U.S. had "no opinion on Arab-Arab border disputes." Those historians may also finally learn whether Glaspie's green light was all part of an elaborate set-up of our erstwhile client, his having already served his usefulness in warding off the spread of Shiia Extremism to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia by fighting Iran for 8 years, while we proovided arms to his opponent in return for hostages.

Thanks for posting. The only chance we have, slim at best, of avoiding history's mistakes is by keeping history front and center. As usual, then as now, the working class ended up paying for the hubris of the ruling class, whether those be enlisted U.S. troops suffering the effects of prolonged petroleum-chem weapons exposure, Palestinian immigrants working for the decadent Kuwaiti princes or Iraqi conscripts caught retreating on the infamous 'highway of death' which U.S. aviators referred to as a 'turkey shoot.'