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Editorials
December 24, 1990 issue

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The choice in the Persian Gulf conflict has never been between sanctions and force. It is between peace and war, between life and death. U.S. President George W. Bush manipulated the various United Nations sanctions votes as he sent Secretary of State James Addison Baker to bribe and buy a favorable "use of force" resolution, putting a specious international gloss on his deadly designs for war and, not inconsequentially, buying time for the Pentagon to amass the most destructive invasion force since D-Day. The polls, the pressures of a self-aggrandizing war coalition and the uncertain formations of a nascent antiwar movement will set the time frame rather than any true test of sanctions themselves.

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PERSIAN Gulf; SANCTIONS (Law); WAR; PRESIDENTS -- United States; VOTING; UNITED States
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