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Get this.
Buy, beg, borrow or steal a copy of this and listen to it, right now. Then play it to your family, your friends, your neighbours and your pets.
A potted history of the Gulf War, the major influences in the run-up to the invasion of Kuwait, and the aftermath including the effects of sanctions, DU ammunition, and the abuse of the Oil for Food programme.
It doesn't tell you anything that hasn't already been mentioned by others over the last 10 years, but to get it all in one hit, told in this form, is painfully powerful.
In 75 minutes it throws up enough info to convince all but the most rabid warmonger that the Gulf War was morally indefensible in both means and ends, as is the way the sanctions have been used since then. Since the West now seems intent on kicking off another war in Iraq, based solely on its claim to the moral high ground and the "threat" that any industrialised nation poses to its enemies, I have yet to find a better antidote to the self-righteous bullshit coming from our governments.
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