Desert Massacre: The Imperial War Against Iraq

The 1991 Persian Gulf War heralded the beginning of a new imperialist redivision of the world, as American capitalism attempted to use military force to compensate for its declining position in the global economy relative to its major rivals. * Desert Massacre reveals secret White House operations to lure Saddam Hussein into an invasion of neighboring Kuwait, thus providing the long-awaited pretext for American military intervention in this oil-rich region. Figures such as George H. W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and Paul Wolfowitz participated in the invasion of Iraq in 1991. The shameful maneuvers at the United Nations by the United States and other great powers, including the Soviet Union and China, led to the United Nations sponsoring these horrific massacres. US forces carried out atrocities, such as the deliberate bombing of a civilian air raid shelter in Al-Amiriyah, and the brutal massacre of Iraqi soldiers fleeing to death. The United States sought not only to defeat the Iraqi army, but to destroy Iraqi society, which until then had been one of the most advanced societies in the Middle East. Huge numbers of bombs destroyed industry, roads, railways, television and radio stations, medical supplies and 92% of the electrical power supply.