Sure enough. Apart from it not really making sense, [Saddam trying to kill Bush 1 in Kuwait], there is not exactly a water-tight case against him: deanesmay.com
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It is incredible that so many people who claim to be "conservatives" are so willing to believe that which comes out of the government. In the case of this claim, however, it's even worse. The people who were responsible for creating and 'substantiating' this allegation that it was Saddam who ordered the assassination of former President Bush are Bill Clinton and Mad Madeline.
That administration would never use unproven allegations or questionable claims to justify a government action, now, would they? After all, that was the "most ethical adminstration in history," right?
Included in this 2001 article from the conservative site, LeftWatch.com, is the fact that many of those "smart" missiles used in that 1993 bombing campaign in Baghdad missed their mark and landed in residential areas, killing innocent civilians, including one of Iraq's most gifted artists.
Of course, it must have been Saddam who ordered that assassination attempt on former President Bush, while the elder Bush was vacationing in Kuwait in 1993. After all, the person who attempted the assassination, an Iraqi whiskey smuggler, claimed that he was sent by Saddam. We should of course believe that that whiskey smuggler was telling the truth, even though he later claimed that the Kuwaiti police tortured him into making that claim, a statement which he recanted before being executed for the crime. That whiskey smuggler would have no reason on his own to try to assassinate former President Bush, of course, even though he had lost 16 family members during Bush's bombing of Iraq in the Persian Gulf War. After all, Iraqis love the United States and President Bush (both of them - senior and junior), and even though there may be a small amount of Iraqi casualties (or as we like to call it, "collateral damage") during a war, Iraqis are always happy when we bomb their country, because they love the smell of napalm and the destruction of their nation's infrastructure. We may find that odd, but from what our government leaders tell us, that must be part of their culture - for them, those are signs of liberty, freedom, and justice. But above all, it's clear that the Iraqis know that our intentions are always for the best, and that we have nothing but noble motives when we go to war against their country.
Never mind that Jude Wanniski, one of the leading conservative economists in our nation, and the supply-side guru who advised President Ronald Reagan, Republican leader Jack Kemp, and other conservative leaders, has written that it was not Saddam who ordered the assassination attempt on George H.W. Bush. (Former President Bush invited Mr. Wanniski to Camp David to advise him, but what does he know, right?)
Readings for today:
Bumping Off an Ex-President
A Case Not Closed
President Bush Does Not Tell Lies!!
Posted by Conservative Student on June 08, 2003 at 6:42 PM
Certainly true. Still, that was a decade ago. It's rather unusual to go to war in retalliation for something that old.
Posted by James Joyner on June 08, 2003 at 7:37 PM
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