Veterans Day: A story of heroism Nov 11, 2008
However, 16 percent of Persian Gulf War veterans are women. This compares to 3 percent of Vietnam vets. (Florida Times-Union)
Veterans Day Parade set for Tuesday Nov 9, 2008
He is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War. Brown was born in Dallas, Texas, and moved to Oklahoma. (Durant Daily Democrat, OK)
In search of Veterans Nov 9, 2008
He added that about 34 percent of Legion members nationwide are veterans of the Persian Gulf War or the current War on Terror. To draw younger members, VFW posts provide guidance to discharged veterans seeking benefits, monetary grants to military families struggling financially and outreach programs to troops currently in the field, Sandman said. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Cracks in Tomb of the Unknowns spur debate Nov 7, 2008
Since then, the United States has fought the Persian Gulf War as well as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with no unknown war dead. Tom Sherlock, historian for Arlington National Cemetery, where the tomb is located, said the lack of new burials should not reduce the memorial's significance. (USA Today)
Veterans Day ceremony set Nov. 11 at 11 Nov 6, 2008
Conflicts around the world continued World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iran-Iraq, Persian Gulf War, Somali Civil War, Yugoslav wars, Afghanistan, Iraqi the list goes on. Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954 to honor all U.S. soldiers, past and present, who served in the military in times of war and peace. (Big Bear Grizzly, CA)
How Late Should You Let Your Kid Stay Up on Election Night? Nov 3, 2008
Ten years later, I wore yellow ribbons and tied one on my car when my father was deployed to Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. I was supporting a war and hoping for my father's safe return. (Slate)
Chronicling an officer's grim duty Oct 28, 2008
A career Marine in his 40s, he had been preparing for medical school when the Persian Gulf War started. As Sheeler describes him, Beck had a strict sense of mission. (Boston Globe)
All about Grapes Oct 27, 2008
But the most trouble I got into was when the Persian Gulf War was on, and we were in Chicago Stadium. They were singin' the anthem and they had the sparklers goin', and back in Canada, they were burnin' the American flag. (Globe and Mail -- Sports)
Albany native promoted to general Oct 25, 2008
MacFarland also served in combat in Granada, Panama and the Persian Gulf War. He was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1981. (Albany Times Union)
Towelhead: Better to have left things Private Oct 25, 2008
His tale of a 13-year-old girl's sexual awakening and exploitation in the Texas of 1990, during the time of the first Persian Gulf War, is happy to appall at every turn. Everybody in Towelhead seems like a character from a particularly raunchy adult cartoon, capable of only two-dimensional thoughts and actions. (Toronto Star)
Why is no one talking about the finding that Bush lied about the Iraq War? Why is no one calling for his impeachment?? Oct 24, 2008
Hussein breaking or ignoring 16 United Nations Resolutions concerning his threatening actions for 9 years post Persian Gulf War ... Hussein threatening the United States with Weapons of Mass Destruction continuously post Persian Gulf War. (New Iberia, LA)
'W.' dramatic but lacks bite Oct 24, 2008
In the film, George W. Bush discusses seeking revenge on Saddam Hussein in present day before the flashback cycle broaches the subject of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The scattershot structure jumps to many scenes low on substance. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Full-gender equality still an issue for U.S. military Oct 21, 2008
By the time Manning retired 25 years later, more than 40,000 women had served in the first Persian Gulf War in 1990 and 1991. Thirteen were killed and two became prisoners. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Arthur Kent, Former War Reporter, Sues CanWest for Defamation Over Column Oct 21, 2008
Kent gained attention as a correspondent for General Electric Co.'s NBC News during the Persian Gulf War from 1990 to 1991. NBC fired him in 1992 after he refused an assignment in the former Yugoslavia. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
Powell's backing, new funds lift Obama Oct 20, 2008
A four-star Army general, Powell was hailed as a hero for his winning strategy in the first Persian Gulf War, then joined President Bush's administration in its first term, serving as the nation's top diplomat. In the weeks before the Iraq invasion, Powell helped Bush explain why the war was necessary with a highly publicized speech before the United Nations, but he resigned during Bush's second term. (Boston Globe)
Brzezinski: Powell decision tears GOP ticket Oct 20, 2008
"Because of his military service, his role in the first Persian Gulf War, his status as a past Secretary of State, it has put him above the racial divide. He's seen more as an elder statesman," he said. Earlier, Brzezinski warned that if Republican candidate John McCain becomes the next president the world will move toward World War IV.. (PRESS TV)
Talk to the Newsroom: Restaurant Critic Oct 20, 2008
During this period, he spent three months covering the Persian Gulf War and was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing for his portrait of a convicted child molester titled "Twisted Love." He spent his last year in Detroit as the newspaper s movie critic. He also worked as a reporter and writer for The New York Post for a year and a half. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Obama: It's the economy Oct 20, 2008
They included Frederica Garvin, a staff sergeant in the Army Reserve who served as a military policewoman in Iraq during the current conflict and in Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War. "What are we fighting for now?"said Garvin, a Democrat. (News & Observer)
Colin Powell backs Obama Oct 20, 2008
Powell, a four-star army general, was national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan; chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the 1991 Persian Gulf war, when George H.W. Bush was president; and President George W. Bush's first Secretary of State. Powell has consulted with both Obama and McCain, and the General's camp has indicated in the past that he would not endorse. (Guardian News, Nigeria)
Kurdish Defendants Find Support in Town's Clasp Oct 19, 2008
Rasheed Qambari, who was convicted in January, and his fellow defendants worked for U.S. or British-funded aid groups in Kurdistan, a region established as a haven for Iraqi opposition and the Kurdish minority after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. When Hussein's tanks rolled in five years later, the United States evacuated the four men and more than 6,000 other Kurds to Turkey and later to Guam, where they spent months undergoing security checks. (Yahoo News -- Kurdish Issues)
Saddam's doctor paints to ease war's horrors Oct 19, 2008
As bombs fell on Baghdad one night during the first Persian Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's bodyguards banged on Dr. Ala Bashir's door. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ba'ath seeks showdown with Baghdad Oct 18, 2008
See Kevin C. Woods, The Mother of All Battles: Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2008. 3. (Asia Times Online)
Saddam's Doctor Navigates His Way to Art Oct 18, 2008
-- As bombs fell on Baghdad one night during the first Persian Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's bodyguards banged on Dr. Ala Bashir's door. A chauffeur rushed Bashir through the blacked-out streets to a hospital where Saddam lay pale and bloody. (Newsmax)
Full gender equality still issue for military Oct 14, 2008
By the time Ms. Manning retired 25 years later, more than 40,000 women had served in the first Persian Gulf War in 1990 and 1991. Thirteen were killed and two became prisoners. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Signs show fascism could be resurging Oct 8, 2008
x5291 wrote on Oct 8, 2008 8:46 AM:" these accusations of saddam being a murderer, where is ur supporting facts, i'll tell u where one fact is...u can look in the mirror...remembr just like bin laden was a freedom fightr, saddam did some of the US' dirty work...then he began to have a conscience...US could no longer buy him resulting in the persian gulf war because the US jackals and economic hitmen couldnt get to him...where did he get the weapons from?...WE only have to look in the mirror...we... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
They deserve it Oct 7, 2008
The memorial also should honor the memory of Air Force Capt. Patrick Brian Olson, a Washington High School and Air Force Academy graduate who died Feb. 27, 1991, when his plane crashed during the Persian Gulf War ... When remembering these war dead, it is time to put aside one s views concerning the war against terrorism and the Persian Gulf War. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Dems blast McCain for his role in S&L scandal Oct 7, 2008
McCain managed to survive the "Keating Five" embarrassment "because he worked so hard and understood the media" and because the Persian Gulf War took attention away from the scandal, he said. "For the average guy out there, I'm not sure that they really feel that what somebody did 20 years ago is that big of a deal," said Merrill, now a professor emeritus at Arizona State University. (AZCentral -- News)
Nation-building may eclipse standard warfare Oct 6, 2008
From Panama in 1989 to Haiti to the 1991 Persian Gulf War to Iraq in 2003, Caldwell said he has seen the Army "confronted with having to conduct stability operations woefully unprepared.". In 1989, for example, Caldwell was the chief of a military planning team preparing for the 82nd Airborne Division's role in the invasion of Panama. (MSNBC -- International)
Lessons of trust for deployed troops Oct 5, 2008
Another interpreter had fought coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War. Both interpreters, the soldier told me, had that 1,000-yard-stare; Middle Eastern men glaring off at nothing in particular. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Country First? Oct 4, 2008
The grisly tale turned out not to be true, but it was the hook that drew the American public into the Persian Gulf War and earned the PR wizards at Hill & Knowlton every dime of the $10. 7 million they took from the emir of Kuwait. (The American Conservative)
New Jersey judge to leave bench for trench Sep 23, 2008
Christopher Brown is an attorney and municipal court judge in Galloway Township and a veteran of the Persian Gulf War. Brown recently received a notice telling him to prepare for deployment. (The Trentonian, NJ)
Wealth of veteran's history goes online Sep 22, 2008
The interviews provide firsthand accounts of America's involvement in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Afghan War, and the Iraq War. They add a human dimension to the challenges, triumphs and tragedies of war. (New Britain Herald, CT)
'Japan's Hillary' makes run for prime minister... Sep 19, 2008
After working as a translator, she moved into broadcast journalism and won awards for her work during the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War. She entered politics in 1992 and was elected to parliament for the short-lived opposition Japan New Party. (The Drudge Report)
Disabled Activists Arrested At Arlington McCa... Sep 18, 2008
He's a Persian Gulf war vet left a quadriplegic by a car accident. "If I don't get an attendant, I can't get out of the house, so I'm laying in bed.". (W-USA News, DC)
Around the Valley Sep 13, 2008
This year's Veterans Day event will salute military personnel who have served in what organizers call the "Desert Wars": the Persian Gulf War to liberate Kuwait in 1991 and the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Families with soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines from these battles are being asked to provide one or two photos by Oct. 25 to compile a presentation to be shown during the Veterans Day program. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
U.S. Barred From Forcing Troops to Get Anthrax Shots Sep 12, 2008
Anthrax vaccine was used in a limited way in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. A more expansive effort began in 1998. (Yahoo News -- Anthrax)
New hope springs from 9/11 sorrow Sep 11, 2008
The money would supplement about $13 million left over from countries' donations to help pay for the Persian Gulf War, which Congress could allocate for construction. Fading memoriesThe plan seemed solid. (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
Loser’ shares tips (19) Sep 10, 2008
He served 15 years in the Army and a tour in the Persian Gulf War. He moved to Oregon in 1995. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Palin Should Come Out Swinging in Debate Sep 10, 2008
He opposed the use of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf War, thereby voting to allow Saddam Hussein to continue raping and pillaging a neighboring country, stealing their oil and threatening the nearby Saudi Arabian oil fields. When America again found it necessary to take on Saddam Hussein in 2003, Joe Biden thought it would be a bright idea to split the country into three ethnic states: Sunistan, Shiastan and Kurdistan. (Human Events Online)
LETTERS: NCT, Sept. 6, 2008 Sep 7, 2008
"Obama has never even served as a Boy Scout while Sarah is Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard, all 4000 of them, has deployed Guardsmen and appointed each officer commissioned or promoted since she became governor. She knows the difference between a Lt. and a Lt. Colonel and a Colonel and a General not because she has 300 advisors telling her but because she has to appoint them as part of her duties as Governor, not Community Organizer-in-Chief.She may be the American Margaret... (North County Times)
25 Years Of Conventional Evaluation Of Data Analysis Proves Worthless In Practice Sep 5, 2008
7, 1998) The GeneticStorms project is a research effort aimed at using data analysis and data mining methods to investigate the Persian Gulf War Illness. (Feb. (Science Daily)
Illicit teen sex and vampires? Sep 5, 2008
(The movie is set during the Persian Gulf War, which heightens the culture clash. . (CNN -- Showbiz)
Cop Shop: Accounting students aid Thornbury probe Sep 4, 2008
He is also a 13-year Marine Corps veteran with combat experience in the Persian Gulf War. Monaghan, 37, is a Drexel Hill resident. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
Iraq signs $3B oil deal with China Sep 1, 2008
That is close to its status before the U.S.-led war that toppled Saddam in 2003, but below its levels prior to the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahrastani said in July that he is confident Iraq will be able to double its production in the next five years. (CNN -- World)
CongressNow: Obama Enlists the Aid of 60 Generals and Admirals Aug 27, 2008
Gration, a former Air Force fighter pilot who flew nearly 300 missions over Iraq in the first Persian Gulf War and grew up the son of missionary parents in Congo, first met Obama when he briefed him on NATO issues in 2005. The two became close a year later when Gration accompanied Obama on a visit to Africa that included stops in Obama s father s homeland of Kenya and a visit to the former South African prison cell of Nelson Mandela. (Roll Call)
Joseph Biden's rise from ruin to rebirth in the Senate Aug 25, 2008
Biden, who had opposed the Persian Gulf War in 1991, worked in 2002 with the committee's ranking Republican member, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, on a resolution that would authorize action to remove weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - but not to remove President Saddam Hussein. The White House opposed the idea, which floundered; Biden ultimately voted for the war resolution that Obama opposed. (International Herald Tribune)
Joe Biden respected -- if not always popular -- for foreign policy ... Aug 24, 2008
He had voted against authorization for the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Now he joined Lugar in drafting legislation that would have authorized the president to take action to eliminate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but not to remove Saddam Hussein. (Los Angeles Times)
American Legion hopes to attract new generation of veterans Aug 24, 2008
Persian Gulf War veterans, defined by the Legion as those who have served since August 1990, make up only 5. 1 percent of the active duty of the organization. (AZCentral -- News)
Oil tumbles below $115 Aug 23, 2008
47 per cent. In dollar terms, it was oil's steepest one-day slide since Jan. 17, 1991, just after the start of the Persian Gulf War. Crude prices had risen for three straight days, including an almost $6 rally on Thursday. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
US pushing to get Iraqi Air Force off the ground Aug 20, 2008
The US military all but paralyzed the Iraqi Air Force after the 1991 Persian Gulf War, turning veteran pilots such as Aziz into grounded bureaucrats ... The eight-year conflict took a considerable toll on the force, but when the Persian Gulf War started in 1991, Iraq still had hundreds of combat aircraft and skilled pilots operating out of dozens of bases. (Boston Globe)
A Few Bad Men Aug 19, 2008
But since the first Persian Gulf War, the profile of the average military inmate has changed dramatically. In 2002, the most common crime committed by military inmates was rape, followed by drug possession and drug trafficking. (Forbes -- Business)
True lies and foreign wars Aug 16, 2008
In the Persian Gulf war, Bush the elder called Saddam Hussein worse than Hitler. The Bosnian war had camps, emaciated prisoners and alleged genocide. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Inflation Nation Aug 15, 2008
While that fate has yet to befall the United States, we've got our own problems: "Consumer-price inflation hit a 17-year high in July, rising 5.6% from a year earlier." CNN Money into context: "The July increase matched the 5.6% level in January 1991, when the Persian Gulf War was raging." The New York Times takes a , saying that yesterday's consumer price report "offered quantitative proof of what Americans have been feeling for months: almost everything costs more, even as they have less money... (Slate)
Women and war: The toll of deployment on physical health Aug 15, 2008
The pattern of health problems reported by 1,114 women surveyed in 2006 and 2007 is similar to many symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, the controversial condition reported by veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War ... "And since the Persian Gulf War, combat roles for women have expanded substantially. This study is an attempt to understand the impact of deployment and war-related stressors on the health of military women.". (EurekAlert!)
Anthrax Suspect's Funeral, Counselor Speaks Aug 12, 2008
Officials have said the turmoil over the that had been linked to illnesses during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a key part of the reason they believe that Ivins sent out anthrax-laced letters in the fall of 2001 -- as such an attack would, in a single stroke, have eliminated the skepticism and second guessing about the need for an anthrax vaccine, The New York Times' Eric Lipton reports. Ivins and other researchers had been working on a more advanced alternative vaccine -- considered safer... (Washington Post)
Pentagon Papers Researcher Anthony Russo Dies Aug 11, 2008
Russo, retired as a researcher for Los Angeles County, subsequently devoted himself to anti-nuclear issues and led Persian Gulf War protests. Ellsberg mourned Russo's death in a posting on an anti-war blog linked to his official Web site. (Fox News)
Pentagon Papers figure Russo dead at 71 Aug 11, 2008
Russo later devoted himself to anti-nuclear issues, led Persian Gulf War protests ... Russo, retired as a researcher for Los Angeles County, subsequently devoted himself to anti-nuclear issues and led Persian Gulf War protests. (CNN -- US)
‘Human Shields’ Press for Compensation Jul 30, 2008
Congress has largely pushed off debate over the current war in Iraq until next year, but a band of lobbyists has been storming Capitol Hill to press Members to approve a measure dealing with the 1991 Persian Gulf War. LOG IN NOT A SUBSCRIBER. (Roll Call)
Commissioners balk at advertisement to be placed on tornado memorial stone (186) Jul 30, 2008
"The commission went down this road before three years ago," said Linville, referring to a monument recognizing our local National Guard's service in the first Persian Gulf War and in the current Iraq war which a local newspaper wished to place on the Courthouse grounds, with the name of the paper chiseled in stone at the base of the monument. That monument was eventually placed on the Lafayette National Guard Armory grounds after much controversy and acrimony. (Lafayette Macon County Times, TN)
* Forty years of nonproliferation, but the Bomb remains Jul 29, 2008
Twice, Iraq bucked safeguards X first when it built the Osirak reactor and failed to provide inspectors full transparency and convincing assurance it would not use the plant to produce plutonium for weapons and second, when it nearly completed its secret enrichment program prior to the 1991 Persian Gulf War. North Korea proved more successful, becoming the eighth country to detonate a nuclear weapon. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
PTSD leaves physical footprints on the brain Jul 28, 2008
Researchers such as Dr. Charles Marmar at the San Francisco VA center's Northern California Institute for Research and Education estimate the number of WWII vets with PTSD is consistent with the 1-in-5 figures found in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War. - Justin Berton. (San Francisco Chronicle)
House Committee Hears The "I-Word" Jul 26, 2008
King pointed to a recent article about a secret effort to remove older uranium yellow cake from Iraq, and alluded that it represented a significant amount that supported Mr. Bushs claim, ignoring the fact that the uranium dated from the 1991 Persian Gulf War and had long been known to U.N. weapons inspectors. Meanwhile, hundreds of activists spilled out of the committee room and lined the hallways outside. (CBS News -- US)
Republicans Defeat Gas Price Relief Bill Jul 26, 2008
Earlier releases, such as a 34 million barrel drawdown in 1991 during the Persian Gulf War, caused prices to fall. As debate began, the White House threatened a veto. (CBS News -- US)
BOB RAY SANDERS: Ring's owner learns he's proud after graduation a ‘lifetime ago' Jul 25, 2008
In that conversation, I learned that Sewell is a disabled veteran from the Persian Gulf War, but he refused to talk about his military service or his injury except to say: "I was in the Army, with a reconnaissance unit. We had some problems. That's all. I was just doing my job."I gently tried to press him for more, but stopped because the pain was so apparent. Instead, we went back to the ring, and he chuckled at the thought that so many people were interested in helping him retrieve it. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Sexual Assault In Military Draws Attention Jul 24, 2008
That's a change from the 1991 Persian Gulf War and earlier wars ... One study, however, of 1991 Persian Gulf War veterans found incidents of assault, rape and harassment were higher at war than in peacetime military samples, according to the VA's PTSD center. (CBS News -- US)
