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Summary: Relevant Today
Review: Are the lives of your countrymen and women more valuable than the lives of Afghans, Iraquis, Palestinians, or those of the people of Northern Ireland? Should you support imperialist war against them? Should you restrain your struggle to improve your working conditions during today's "war on terrorism" or acquiesce to the restrictions on democratic rights for the "war effort"?The authors of "Washington's Assault on Iraq: Opening Guns of World War II" say no, not if working people are going to advance and build a world free of inequality and war. This book is as relevant today as it was at the start of the Gulf War.
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Summary: Relevant Today
Review: Are the lives of your countrymen and women more valuable than the lives of Afghans, Iraquis, Palestinians, or those of the people of Northern Ireland? Should you support imperialist war against them? Should you restrain your struggle to improve your working conditions during today's "war on terrorism" or acquiesce to the restrictions on democratic rights for the "war effort"? The authors of "Washington's Assault on Iraq: Opening Guns of World War II" say no, not if working people are going to advance and build a world free of inequality and war. This book is as relevant today as it was at the start of the Gulf War.
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Summary: long on jargon, short on analysis; completely worthless
Review: I picked up this book at an antiwar rally last year, assuming that it was about the current mess in Iraq; much to my surprise, this book was written many years ago, during the first Gulf War. So I thought I'd see if its analysis held up; the answer: not at all. The book is full of erroneous predictions, rendered in mystifying rhetoric, which I assume can only be understood by a few loyal followers of the author. The book does have one virtue: it is howlingly funny at times, although of course only by accident - so if you weary of theonion.com and the Daily Show, you might find it useful.
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Summary: Washington's Assault on Iraq
Review: The best working-class analysis you'll find on the 1991 Gulf War. Explains why working people in the US had no stake in the horrible slaughter. Lots of facts and information about the various participants in the war: the US government (Democrats and Republicans), the Iraqi regime, the Israelis, the Palestinians, western European nations, the USSR. Tells not only why the Iraqis didn't fight but why the US didn't win anything. Read the section on the "Vietnam Syndrome"--it's excellent. Read about how communist workers, who opposed the war, boldly stood and told the truth in the face of the superpatriotic fervor of the time.
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Summary: The Truth About Bush Sr-Clinton-Bush Jr's Wars
Review: The US government never goes to war for 'democracy', 'freedom' , against 'ethnic cleansing' ,or against
'terrorism'. The US government goes to war for domination, markets, and profits, profits,
profits.Profits for families that have hundreds of millions and billions of dollars.It is their government,
not ours.In the Gulf in 1991 ( and in the region tomorrow ) war was,and is ,and will be, in the first place on behalf of Big
Oil. The superrich send working-class youth to kill and die for their interests. Not our own.In this now classic work
Jack Barnes explains the Gulf War and the increased rivalries between the market giant ( imperialist )
countries leading toward Depression, fascism, and a new world war. And what working class fighters
have done and will do -- here and all over the world --to resist and win.
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Summary: the past shows the present and the future
Review: This book shows how the Gulf war of 1990-1991 war not only a product of the continued conflict US Imperialism has with the Iraqis and other peoples of the Middle East. It illustrates how the growing tension between the US ruling circles and the imperialist governments of Europe and Japan played a decisive role in the Gulf War. Those conflicts continue to deepen to this day. As such this book is not an abstract tool about dead history, nor is this book an abstract analysis for academic or journalistic voyeurs. It is a handbook on the realities of world politics for working people, youth, and oppressed people who want to struggle against wars, imperialism, and oppression.
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