"Going
to War": The American Use of War Pretext Incidents
This
Special
50 page issue of Press for Conversion by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms
Trade includes:
(COAT) covers the use of war pretext incidents for going to war over
the last 157 years:
1846
- The Mexican American War, President Polk and General Taylor
1898
- The Spanish American War, 'Remember the Maine'
1915
- World War I, Sinking the Lusitania
1941
- World War II, Pearl Harbor
1950
- The Korean War, South Korea provoked the war
1962
- Proposed Cuban War, Operation Northwoods
1964
- The Vietnam War, Gulf of Tonkin incident
1983
- Invasion of Grenada, Operation Urgent Fury
1986
- The Libya Bombing, La Belle Disco
1989
- The invasion of Panama, Drugs, Noreiga and Bush Sr.
1991
- Desert Storm / Gulf War I, Kwaiti incubator babies by Hill &
Knowlton
1999
- NATO's War against Yugoslavia, the 'so-called' Massacre at Racak
2001
- Afghanistan / The Taliban, Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden
2003
- The US/UK Invasion of Iraq / Gulf War II, Saddam Hussein and WMD's