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State Henry Kissinger. He noted that Kissinger, then Akins’ superior, had opposed Akins’ adamant attacks on such ideas. Henry Kissinger, then U.S. Secretary, had another view, and my career in the Foreign Service did not extend much beyond that point … There are those in the Bush Administration who will point out that conditions are more propitious now than in 1975 … Notably, in 1990, the former Kissinger Associate president, Lawrence Eagleburger, was deputy secretary of state under James Baker, and former Kissinger employee Brent Scowcroft was Bush’s White House national security adviser during this period, ensuring that the Kissinger view was dominant in the formulation of U.S. foreign policy during the Gulf War buildup. Furthermore, Kissinger was calling in the media for war against Iraq during this period. The domestic voices of opposition were effectively drowned out by the president’s war mobilization in the media. THE TARGET: AN INDEPENDENT EUROPE AND JAPAN Within a brief period, it became clear to thinking people in Europe and elsewhere that George Bush, indeed, had quite another objective than merely defending U.S. or even Western oil interests in Saudi Arabia. Bush’s incredibly vulgar public pronouncements, taunting Saddam Hussein, and comparing Iraq’s president to ‘a modern-day Adolf Hitler,’ were made quite deliberately. An unprecedented Washington and London propaganda and pressure offensive was unleashed against Iraq’s Western supporters during the war and its six-month-long buildup, but not against the Soviet Union or France, which had been the major suppliers of Iraq’s armaments. The target was Germany—more precisely, German high-technology industry, which was vital for the reconstruction of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. France and the USSR, which together with China, the United States and Britain, comprised the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, had agreed to vote with Washington and Britain for going to war after the ultimatum deadline of January 17. Their role in Iraq was discreetly ignored by various Washington-linked exposés. Instead, through channels directly linked to British and American intelligence, Hamburg’s Der Spiegel and influential Republican senators such as Jesse Helms began an all-out offensive against
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