Endnotes

1.   This speech is taken from Hansard for January 16, 1991.

2.   High-Death Weapons by Michael T. Klare, originally ­published by The Nation Magazine /The Nation Co. Inc., June 3, 1991. Reprinted in It Was, It Was Not, ed. Mordecai Briemberg, New Star Books, Vancouver, 1992, p. 46.

3.   High-Death Weapons, Michael T. Klare, p.46.

4.   Indonesia invaded East Timor on December 7, 1975, ten days after East Timor declared its independence from Portugal. At least 200,000 people, representing 1/3 of the population of East Timor, have died as a result of the Indonesian occupation. Indonesia is a core recipient of Canadian aid. See also: Noam Chomsky’s Year 501: The Conquest Continues, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1993.

5.   Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, a well-known Republican, and seen by millions representing a multitude of political persuasions.

6.   Authors’ estimates.

7.   After much public pressure, these lyrics were changed.

8.   This is standard rhetoric and of course, completely untrue. There were numerous attempts from ­different parties to negotiate a peaceful end to the conflict. All of these efforts were blocked by the US and, with few exceptions, dutifully ignored by mainstream media. See: Journal of Palestine Studies, Volume XX, Number 3, Spring 1991. See also: Desert Shield to Desert Storm by Dilip Hiro, HarperCollins, 1992.

9.   A Harvard medical team that visited Iraq stressed a direct correlation between bombing damage to Iraqi infrastructure (power generating plants, for ­example) and the breakdown of public health ­(contaminated water supplies etc.). They estimated that at least 150,000 children under the age of five would die from infectious diseases in the 12 month period following the cessation of bombing. (Globe and Mail, May 22, 1991) According to the U.N., on-going ­sanctions against Iraq have resulted in ­approximately half a million deaths.

10. This story was brought to us by Hill and Knowlton, the PR firm hired by the Kuwaiti government after the Iraqi invasion. See among others, Public Relations by Johan Carlisle, Covert Action, Spring 1993, Number 44, p.19.

11. “Ottawa Sending CF-18 Fighter Jets,” Vancouver Sun, Sept. 15, 1990.

12. “Forces’ Hardware Geared for Defence,” Vancouver Sun, Jan. 16, 1991.

13. From Stephen Dale’s “Guns ’n Poses, The Myths of Canadian Peacekeeping,” This Magazine Mar—Apr 1993, Vol. 26 No. 7, p.12.

14. The West has supported, in various ways, despots: Siad Barre of Somalia, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Amir al-Ahmad al-Sabah of Kuwait, among others.

15. See “Adding Humanitarian Intervention to the US Arsenal” by Alex de Waal and Rakiya Omaar in Covert Action, Spring 1993 No. 44, p. 4; “Gravy Train: Feeding Pentagon by Feeding Somalia” by Stephen Shalom in Z, Feb. 1993 Vol. 6, No. 2, p.15; and “Somalia: The Cynical Manipulation of Hunger” by Mitchel Cohen in Z, Nov. 1993 Vol. 6, No. 11, p.33.

16. US Government estimates.

17. Stephen Dale, “Guns ’n Poses,” p.16. Also graffiti on McGill campus.

18. High-Death Weapons, Michael T. Klare, p.47.

19. Laffin, John, The Arab Mind Considered: A Need for Understanding, New York, Talpinger Co., 1975.