ABSTRACT
In future people will wonder with amazement how and why the United States became embroiled in the Persian Gulf conflict. Perhaps the biggest tragedy of the Gulf crisis was the manipulation of the nation by George Bush into a confrontational situation with Saddam Hussein's regime. In the aftermath of the Cold War, with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the United States was in a paradoxical situation. The American people were told that the fruits of war would be the easy destruction of an evil dictator, the crushing of international terrorism, and the reestablishment of the United States as a superpower. This unnecessary, avoidable, and indefensible war is not against Saddam Hussein but a massive attack against the Iraqi people specifically, and generally against the entire Arab world. The fruits of war for the United States will be guilt, shame, and responsibility for immoral acts of military terrorism which equal or exceed those committed in Kuwait by Saddam Hussein.
