[lbo-talk] Re: I don't get it

[Dennis Perrin]

> ". . . In addition, the Iraqi
> willingness to use chemical weapons had been tempered by U.S. Secretary of
> State James Baker's promise to Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz that such
> a contingency would change the U.S. war aim from the liberation of Kuwait
> to regime change in Iraq."

As I said: it simply came down to a severe imbalance of power.

DP