{"id":460,"date":"2026-06-28T09:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:08:57","slug":"january-12-1991-congress-votes-to-send-troops-to-expel-iraq-from-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"January 12, 1991: Congress Votes to Send Troops to Expel Iraq From Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>January 12, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>January 12, 1991: Congress Votes to Send Troops to Expel Iraq From Kuwait<\/h1>\n<h1>January 12, 1991: Congress Votes to Send Troops to Expel Iraq From Kuwait<\/h1>\n<h2>\n<p>The United States had backed Saddam Hussein in Iraq\u2019s long war with Iran, but by the time the war ended in 1988 Iraq was deeply in debt\u2014not least to neighboring Kuwait. In <em>The Nation<\/em>, Andy Kopkind warned of the consequences of \u201cthe wider war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=458\">Saving the Scarlet Macaw in Narco Country<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>January 12, 2015<\/time><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The United States had backed Saddam Hussein in Iraq\u2019s long war with Iran, but by the time the war ended in 1988 Iraq was deeply in debt\u2014not least to neighboring Kuwait. That and other disputes involving oil revenues led to Iraq\u2019s invasion in August 1990. The White House rejected Hussein\u2019s peace overtures, stating flatly that negotiations could not begin until Iraq withdrew from Kuwait. In <em>The Nation<\/em> of February 4, 1991, the great Andy Kopkind published a cover story, \u201cThe Wider War.\u201d\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If Bush does get his quick victory, the wider war will still be far from finished. The costs of victory are staggering, not only economically but in domestic and international political and moral costs. The restoration of a despised and degenerate emirate in Kuwait will not produce the stability the generals predict. The further militarization of America will not construct a stable society. Standards of living have been declining for twenty years; the structural flaws in the system have nothing to do with Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the purpose of Bush\u2019s action was to destroy the \u201cpost-Vietnam syndrome,\u201d to show Americans that war need not be costly, either in lives or treasure. The job of the peace movement now is to expose all the expenses of the military\/imperial project: not only for ourselves but for billions of people struggling and suffering, in confused and imperfect ways, to get some control over their lives and destiny. 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