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Vol. 16, No 01 ISSN-1499-8599 / ISSN-1499-8602 REL-MAR McCONNELL MEDIA COMPANY January 2011

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Psychics Missed Another

World Changing Event -The Crisis In Egypt!

By Rob McConnell

At the beginning of December 2010, I had

invited psychics to send me their predictions for

2011, which they ever so willingly did.

Below are the unedited predictions of

one psychic who has been featured on radio andtelevision shows throughout North America,

including mine, The 'X' Zone Radio Show:

PREDICTIONS FOR 2011:- 2011 begins on a positive note,

although we will have a severe, long winter.

One of the main concerns for 2011 will be the

constant environmental changes. Fires, fires,

and more fires begin in the spring months. Also,

many will endure severe water problems, and

California will seem like it is all but slipping

into the ocean. The environment where there is

much rainfall will bring in a new body fungus

growing on people. This is from the constant

moisture and contaminated, stagnant water.

- The Mississippi River will flood as

well as the Missouri River, and the land masschange will brings these two bodies of water

together, as one river flow. It will seem as if the

United States has been cut down the middle.

- Expect another rainy spring and a hot,

hot summer.

- Last year I spoke about earthquakes in

New England, focusing on the Vermont, New

Hampshire, Canadian border, and the St.

Lawrence River. This action began in late 2010,

and continues into 2011. Expect more intenseeruptions throughout 2011.

- The economy seems to be comingback, and the housing market will see an

upward swing for the first nine months of 2011,

but changes come after September.

- Because of these earth changes, as well

as the political scene, there will be much

political unrest in 2011, and we can expect city

strikes, demonstrations, and public outbreaks. A

new Army and armed forces will come into

being. Soldiers in gray uniforms will cover the

streets in the cities and countryside as well.

These will not be all American soldiers, but

international, perhaps springing out of the UN.This is the beginning of The New World Orderand a police state, but will be disguised as an

economic move because most of our soldiers

are overseas.

- Obama is embarrassed in early 2011,

as he places people in office that have not been

properly vetted or cleared. He will not run for

office in 2012, even though many think he will

at this time.

- A woman is the focus of the news in

January and February, perhaps extending into

March. There are three possibilities, and they all

may occur at this timing: 1) Lindsay Lohen may

pass away because of her drug use. 2) Problems

with Kate and William, although I do see the

wedding coming off, there is disruption anddisharmony beforehand. 3) Hillary Clinton

tosses her pretty blond head and walks away

from the Secretary of State position very soon.

Make no mistakethe Clintons are the ones

who have the power here, not Obama. Hillary

has to distance herself from this administration,

as it beings to flap and fail, because she will run

for President in 2012 and WIN. Also, the 2012

election will involve two women running

against each other.- The United States will go to war with

Iran sometime in 2011, perhaps in the fallmonths. All they need is the slightest

provocation.

- The publics attention is being diverted

from the real world problems. Terrorism is not

the top problematic force here, but the activities

of China and Russia. These two countries will

ban together and will try, and perhaps succeed,

in destroying our dollar and financial system.

They are the true threat, and plan to make

Chinas dollar the strongest in the world by

2015.

- Expect to see North Korea bomb Chinaand Japan, and perhaps a few other Asiancountries in 2011.

- Some cities will be bombed soon, and

they are not the ones youd expect. Seattle,

Jacksonville, Fl., Atlanta, Albuquerque, and

other areas where our nuclear and space

research centers are located. These will be

small, nuclear bombs, so begin to prepare.

- Expect a food and water shortage:

Prices will rise extensively for fruits and

vegetables.

Continued on Page 2


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Psychics Missed The Crisis in Egypt!

In This Edition of

The X Chronicles

Newspaper

(Print/Online/CD ROM/e-BookVersion)

January 2011

These are just SOME of the storiesand articles in this edition of

THE X CHRONICLES

NEWSPAPER

Page 01: Psychics Missed Another World

Changing Event

Giza

Page 09: What Really Happened in the Gulf

War

Page 19: Horros of Depleted Uranium

Page 20: Is The Patterson Film Too Good A

Hoax?

Page 25: Chimpanzees and Romans - Why Both

Make War

Page 32: Planet X - The Sign of the Son of Man

And the End of the Age

Page 33: The Genesis Grid

Page 34: From The X Zone Newsroom

Page 37: Preparing for Doomsday

Nova is Canadian

Page 43: The Near-Death Experience and the

Page 44: The X Zone Radio Show

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World Changing Event -

The Crisis In Egypt!

Continued from Page 1

- Gas an oil prices will rise and it may

become prohibitive to travel over the summer

months. The best way to travel will be Amtrak,

and the country will decide it needs to improve

its train services, much like Europe has.

- Say good-by to the natural cotton fibre

because pure cotton will cost more thancashmere, and be impossible to locate. We all

will have synthetic fabrics forced on us.

- The banks? Over 100 banks are in deep

trouble as I write this. The ACORN group

caused this problem, and people cannot pay

back their mortgage debts. This continues, eventhough the job market will rally a bit in 2011.

- Expect to see a large drop in the Stock

Market between March and May of 2011.

- 2011 will be remembered as the Yearof Pestilence, as a strange, large insect begins to

attack humans because of the environmental

changes. This insect will act like a mad wasp.

- There will be disruptive weather across

the world in 2011. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis,

and earthquakes.

- Argentina has found the cure forcancer and will be criticized for this. Also,

Argentina has discovered a new colonization

deep within the Amazon Jungles that cannot be

easily reached, if at all. This colony of people

seem to have some supernatural powers.

- Some strange UFO sightings come out

of Peru, and Peru may be the first country to

acknowledge our Sister Galaxies and the reality

of UFOs.

- An antibiotic being worked on could

kill the scientists working on the project.

- A high-altitude mountain crumbleswithout warning, could be in India or Tibet.

- Parents can begin to plan the sex of

their unborn child because of new genetics.

- There will be a new focus on bodybuilding and physical fitness, especially those

between 20 and 35, because of some new wars.

People will be encouraged to work out, and eat

some new, body building foods.

- Whats positive? Better school systems

with improved food, major healing discoveries

in medicine, a longer life span, and a new

colony on Mars, finding out if Mars can support

life all in 2011.- A deeper spiritual reality is desired, as

people begin to plan their lives, focused on

looking inside. Alternative medicine and

healing techniques will be on the rise, accepted,

and become more mainstream because theyWORK! People become healthier and live

longer.

However, not one of the psychics that

we have had on The 'X' Zone Radio Show since

1993, some who claim to work with law

enforcement, psychics that claim to be psychicto the stars and the rich and the famous, others

who do telephone psychic readings giving the

desperate members of society guidance in their

daily life, love life and careers, predicted the

crisis in Egypt which started on this week -

January 25 2011. (Continued on Page 3)

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Psychics Miss The Crisis In Egypt!


World Changing Event -

The Crisis In Egypt!


The same psychics missed the tragedy in the

shopping center in Tucson, Arizona where 6people were killed and 12 others wounded by

including Representative Gabrielle Gifford by

Jared Lee Loughner; the terrorist attack on

America on September 11, 2001; the major

earthquake in Haiti in 2010; the Shuttle

Challenger disaster; the problems of Apollo 13;

and the Christmas 2009 terrorist attack on an

aircraft destined for the United States.

So, how can anyone ever take whatthese people say as serious? What does this tell

us about the state of our society when peoplehave to spend their hard earned money on

psychic-babble from these self professed seers

of the future?

I find it amazing that psychic-babble

means so much to so many - and yet, these

psychic-babblers are guiding people through

what are the darkest hours of their lives without

any psychological training whatsoever,

potentially causing serious psychological

damage to the people who call for their psychic-

babble.How can those responsible for the well

being of the members of society allow members

of the psychic community to continue their

pseudo-trade?

There are laws in place for legitimate

professional members of the medical and

mental health community as well as strict

educational guidelines before they can practice

their profession. Yet, all it takes for members of

the psychic community to ply their trade is a

website and their ability to bilk callers of their

hard earned cash electronically.I believe it is time that psychic are shut

down - this would include psychics, channelers,

mediums, tarot card readers, palmists and

others who claim to have the ability to predictthe future by any means whatsoever.

Over the many years of covering

psychic fairs and expositions, I have watched

people go from reader, to reader, to reader, to

reader, handing out their hard earned money,

hoping to find happiness, love and success

through the psychic-babble that these white

collar criminals spew out. If these people were

truly psychic, would they not all see the verysame future for the person that they are reading

for?

Another question that I have never

received an answer to from members of the

psychic / reader community who take themoney of those they read for is whether or not

they claim their psychic revenue on their

income tax? That is one question they are never

willing to answer.

Then, there are the questions that I

always ask that they never have answers too :

1. What are the winning lotterynumbers?

2. What is the next stock that will split?

3. Where can the next major gold find

be located?

4. Who assassinated JFK?

5. Where is the body Jimmy Hoffa?

6. Where is the Holy Grail?

7. Where will extraterrestrials finally

land?

I do not believe that those who actually

spew psychic-babble are any more psychically

gifted than my two dogs Maddie and Nikkita!O ver the past 20 years of hosting The 'X'

Zone Radio Show, I have had predictions from

some of the most well known psychics and not

one of the readings that I have received over theyears has ever been accurate.

I have not identified the psychics in this article

for I do not want to give them any publicity

whatsoever.

Hmmm.... I wonder how many of the

psychics around the world are actually receiving

psychic impressions that I am writing this very

article about their psychic-babble?

My psychic prediction is... wait... I am

getting a vision... I am receiving a messagefrom the other side... let me check my

horoscope... I am looking at the lines in my

palms... my tarot cards say... NOT ONE!For The 'X' Zone Radio & TV Show and

The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper, I am Rob

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Letter to Rob McConnell in response to thisarticle which was sent to The X Zone Nation

in his daily mailing which you can sign up for at

www.xzoneradiotv.com.

Dear Rob

I received your newsletter and was

dismayed to see your story: "PSYCHICS MISS

ANOTHER WORLD CHANGING EVENT -

THE CRISIS IN EGYPT." I'm perplexed at

why you wrote it, and I think perhaps you don't

really understand how the intuitive arts work.Although many psychics have appeared on your

show (myself included), you seemed ready tocall us all out as fakes. That said, I'd like to

explain something.

When a psychic looks at a situation,

person, place or thing using her (or his)

heightened intuition, it's not as if we are

standing in a field of reality and able to relate to

it on many levels (the way all of us do in our

regular lives). Instead, because we're looking

into someone else's reality, it's more like

looking into a wormhole. Vision is limited, and

since every situation can be seen from multipleangles and levels, it's crucial to go into that

'wormhole' with a point of view. In other words,

general questions or situations get a less specificanswers than pointed ones. Ask: what does the

political landscape look like for Mr. Mubarak

(or conversely, the population at large) in the

near future? Not: What country is going to face

an uprising?

Essentially, you are hammering a nail

with a shovel and blaming the shovel when it

doesn't get the result you want. A more useful

tool to find out about Egypt would be Astrology.Egypt lives by what is called the Saturn Return.

That means that roughly every 30 or so years

the country undergoes a complete change in

leadership and direction. An astrologer can see

that. An historian can see that, too, but he or she

might just chalk it up to an interesting

coincidence. Mr. Mubarak also is in a personal

Saturn Return which means it's time for him tomove on. Yet, with this knowledge, one must

still know where to look for information inorder to apply that knowledge.

Astrologers, however, have once more

Ace up their sleeves.On January 4, 2011 there

was a total eclipse that was visible over northern

Africa. The path of total, visible solar eclipses

denote geopolitical hot-spots. That means that

Lybia, Algeria and Saudi Arabia may yet 'catch

on fire.'

I am not an Astrologer, and Astrologers,

as a rule are not psychics. There are different

tools available to us to elicit different types ofinformation - you can hit a nail with a shovel,

but you'll have much more satisfying results

using a hammer. That said, there are a lot offakes out there, so as always, caveat emptor.

Perhaps this has cleared up some issues

for you. Doctors, accountants, retailers and

everyone in the world with a profession are all

practicing all the time. On us. Everyone is at a

different level of proficiency in their calling,

and yet, all of us learn something new every day

in that regard. Psychics are far from

omniscient. If we were, the world would be adifferent place, and psychics would be the Bill

Gates' of the world. It's that quality of having to

jump into someone else's reality stream to look

at probabilities, that is foreign to us and keeps

us from knowing it all, all the time.As for your questions to ask a psychic -

hopefully my words have shed some light on

why they're are not so easy to answer. Reality is

not an objective 'thing' that exists apart from us.

The reason WHY we ask the questions and the

emotions that drive the questions are the door to

the path to the answers. If the reason for asking

is not connected to someone's need and point ofview, again, the answers are difficult to find.

And consider this: who would want to

try and answer those questions anyway? They're

set up to put all the pressure on the psychic and

none on the questioner. The psychic can spend

her days trying to live down a wrong answer

while the questioner walks away unscathed.

That's a big reason why those answers will

never come from a psychic. After all, we're

human beings living in the same world that you

do. It's like we just have a stronger prescription

for our glasses. Some of us are more used toseeing through them than others, but distortions

still occur.

I enjoyed our show last year, and feel

you are a true seeker with an interest in those

things that fall outside the lines we think we live

in. In that way, we are kindred spirits. Thanks

for letting me say my piece.

Deborah Frueh

Intuitive / Psychic


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numbers seem like astronomical figures, since

as the pyramid grew taller, the ramp would have

to be lengthened and the base widened to keepit from collapsing. Since there are over 200 lifts,

or steps to the top of the great pyramid,

considerable time would have been lost in

maintaining the ramp size for each lift. Other

ramp methods have also been theorized, using

internal, zigzag, or spiraling ramps. Levitation

of the stones has also been mentioned.

More recently, Steven Myers, author of

the book, Lost Technologies of the GreatPyramid has suggested that the stones were

transported up the Nile on barges utilizing a

series of water locks across the Giza plateau,

similar to what was used to build the Erie canalin the 1800s, due to the increase in elevation

from the Nile River to the Giza plateau pyramid

site. Upon arrival at the site, each layer of the

pyramid was sealed and flooded, enabling the

stones to be floated into position by lifting the

stones on barges in switchback water locks up

along the face of the emerging pyramid.

Railroads today use a similar switchback

concept to travel up steep grades.

When the three pyramids of Giza were

built remains as much a mystery as how they

were built and/or who build them. Manybelieve they were build before the great flood

mentioned in the Bible, as one researcher has

found evidence of fossils in some of the stones.

I would raise the question of whether those

fossils were in the stones cut from the quarries,

or were they embedded after the pyramid was

built due to a massive flood? In either case

unlike today, Egypt was apparently subjected to

a large amount of water at one time, 5-10

thousand years ago. Im also convinced that the

Sphinx shows evidence on the back portion ofthe lions body of water damage, not deteriation

by wind and sand as many propose, having beencovered with sand up to the neck until the

1800s. (Continued on Page 5)

Searching For the Truth

(Always Telling the Truth

Means Never Having to

Remember Anything)

More theories about the

Sphinx and Pyramids ofGiza

by Dennis Balthaser

During my 33 years of civil engineering

work with the Texas Department of

Transportation, I was fortunate enough to havebeen involved with quality control and quality

assurance of materials used to build several

massive bridge structures in Texas. That

background tends to be the reason I became

interested in researching Underground Basesand Tunnels, and more recently the Pyramids of

Giza. Area 51 and the 1947 Roswell Incident

were two areas of research I had an interest in

before retiring from the Texas DOT in 1996,

and its been sometime since I addressed one of

my favorite areas of research, the pyramids of

Giza. My views about who built them havent

changed over the years, still believing that the

three pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx are much

older than the Egyptian civilization, as were

led to believe today by many Egyptologists and

others.

If in fact the great pyramid of Giza wasbuilt for Khufu, a Pharaoh of the 4th dynasty

about 2600 BC, why was nothing ever found

inside the pyramid to indicate that he was

prepared for the afterlife, as was the custom

with other Pharaohs tombs uncovered over the

years? To this date the only artifact found

referring to Khufu is a 3 statute, now in the

Cairo museum, that was originally found a great

distance away from the pyramids in 1903.Unless some great discovery is still to be

revealed inside the great pyramid referring to

Khufu, I will continue to question if in fact thegreat pyramid was ever built for him.

I have recently come upon several new

theories about how the pyramids of Giza were

built, indicating that after all these years and all

the research that has been done, we still dont

have any factual information on how they were

built, who built them or for what purpose.

Unlike everything else the Egyptian civilization

did accomplish, no records have been

discovered on how or who built the 3 pyramids

of Giza or the Sphinx. Theories are described

as, Proposed explanations whose status is still

conjectural, in contrast to well-establishedpropositions that are regarded as reporting

matters of actual facts. Many I suppose would

place UFO research into that same category as

only being theories, since some have suggested

that alien technology was involved in the

building of the pyramids.

Researcher Stephen Mehler offers

scientific evidence in his book, The Land of

Osiris, about an advanced civilization thatlived in Northern Africa some 10,000 years ago

known as Khemitians. One of his sources of

information came from a local known as a

keeper of wisdom, who presented evidencethat he believed the ancient Khemitians had

contact, and that the existence of life on other

planets and in other dimensions is a distinct

reality, being part of the indigenous tradition of

the Khemitian wisdom keepers. Were the

pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx built with

technology the Khemitians received from star

people, prior to the Egyptian civilization?

The great pyramid of Giza stands over

450 tall and contains some 2 million stones

weighing between 2 and 70 tons each. That does

not include the polished limestone casing stonesthat originally covered the stones seen today.

Only one of the three great pyramids of Giza

still has any casing stones in place near the top,

due to the Arabs removing them to build

mosques and temples.

The most frequently mentioned method

of building the pyramids is the use of a ramp to

drag the stones to their final location, requiring

20-30 years and 20-30,000 workers to

accomplish. Considering the stones had to be

quarried, cut, transported up the Nile river,moved across the Giza Plateau and set, using

the above information, a stone would have hadto been placed every 90 seconds.

Another mathematical problem is the

ramp itself. Knowing the height of the pyramid

(450 feet) and assuming an angle of 20 degrees

for the ramp, which would be a fairly steep

angle, the length of a ramp would calculate to

more than 1316 feet long. Additionally,

assuming a conservative width of 20 feet for the

ramp, and knowing the length and height, the

volume of material required for such a ramp

would be more than 7,000,000 cubic feet. These


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More theories about the

Sphinx and Pyramids of

Giza


Although Ive not found any directreferences to the pyramids of Giza in the Bible,

Biblical scholars have made other comments

such as found in Isaiah 19:19-20; Joshua 22:26,

Ephesians 2:20-21

The purpose of the great pyramid has

been discussed by many over the yearsindicating it was designed as an energy

machine, while others contend it was a water

pump of sort. Today there is no doubt that it is a

money-making generator based on the tourism

industry in Egypt.

A few of the lesser-known facts about

the three pyramids of Giza that I find interesting

are the following:

- The alignment of the three pyramids of

Giza coincides with the 3 stars of Orions belt in

the Orion Constellation.

- There is believed to be a large rockoutcropping directly below the pyramids which

might explain why the massive weight of the

pyramids has not recessed much in height over

thousands of years.

- The great pyramid was placed in the

exact center of all the land area of the world.

Lines drawn through the north-south and east-west axis of the pyramid divide equally all the

earths terrain.

- The empty coffer found in the great

pyramid by the Arabs about 850 AD has the

exact same inside dimensions as the Ark of the

Covenant mentioned in the Bible.Coincidence?

Egyptologists continue to take credit for

building the three pyramids of Giza and the

Sphinx, however these theories and others not

mentioned here need to be considered. For me

the research of the pyramids and Sphinx are

more important than as a tourist industry.

Dennis G. Balthaser

Website: www.truthseekeratroswell.com

Email: [email protected]

About Dennis Balthaser:As a young man, Dennis Balthaser

would look into the night sky and wonder at the

secrets it held. Some years later Dennis bought

a book about UFOs and his wonder turned to

investigation. Today he has a library with over

90 books in reference to ufology.

Dennis served 3 years ('59-62) with theUnited States Army in the 815th Engineering

Battalion.

After some 33 years in CivilEngineering, Dennis retired from the Texas

Department of Transportation in 1996. Having

been keenly interested in the Roswell Incident

of 1947, Dennis decided to move to Roswell,

New Mexico, to pursue his avocation: Ufology.

Initially Dennis worked as an

Engineering Consultant in Roswell,

volunteering his time at the International UFO

Museum and Research Center on weekends.

Nine months later he resigned from the

engineering firm, assuming the duties of

IUFOMRC Operations Manager. He served on

the Board of Directors and became the UFO

Investigator for the Museum as a full time

volunteer from 1996 until 1998, then began his

research as an independent researcher.

Due to his love of ufology, his

dedication and his exhaustive work, Dennis is

regarded as a leading investigator and ufologist

by his peers, communicating regularly with

such well known researchers as Stanton

Friedman, Frank Warren, Scott Ramsey , andothers in their quests to find the truth.

Dennis is a Certified Mutual UFONetwork Field Investigator, a member of Great

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Crash Goes the Del Rio UFO Crash

Crash Goes the Del Rio

UFO Crash

byDr. Kevin Randle, PhD

Eighteen months ago, as I was finishing

up the research and writing for Crash When

UFOs Fall from the Sky, I was preparing the

chapter on the December 6, 1950 Del Rio UFO

crash. I had known about the case for a long

time and believed it to be authentic, based on

the affidavit signed by a retired Air Forcecolonel. That one piece of documentation was

important because, at the time, I believed the

man to have been a colonel and a fighter pilot.

However, in the world today, we have

the Internet which allows easy research into,well, everything. Type a few words into your

search engine and you have a list of sites that

will provide information, much of which is

reliable. So, to check out this particular crash, to

see if anything new had been added since the

last time I had looked, I typed Robert B.

Willingham, and UFO, into the search

engine and found a number of websites.But what I learned was somewhat

disturbing. The date had shifted from December

1950 to 1955, the aircraft changed, the radars

changed and some of the facts changed.

Suddenly there wasnt a clean story of a UFO

crash, but a mess that seemed to have been

altered significantly, and when that happens, it

is not a good sign.

So I contacted Noe Torres, one of those

responsible for the latest interviews with Robert

Willingham and asked a few questions. Torres,

a careful researcher and an honest one, gave methe answers to the questions. He even sent a

copy of his book that detailed the Willingham

story, some documents that supported

Willinghams claim of long Air Force service,

and a picture of Willingham in uniform... a

uniform that the Air Force had phased out in the

1960s which meant the picture was dated fromthat time.

But then I noticed something else.

Willingham wasnt wearing an Air Force

uniform; he was wearing one from the Civil Air

Patrol (CAP). For those who dont know, the

CAP is a civilian auxiliary of the Air Force. It isa volunteer organization whose missions are

search and rescue, and introducing teenagers to

aviation in its cadet program. These volunteers

wear modified Air Force uniforms, but they are

not members of the Air Force or the Air Force

Reserve. They perform a vital role in search and

rescue, saving the taxpayers tens of thousands

of dollars, and helping to save many lives.

And the documents Torres sent were all for the

Civil Air Patrol as well. Clearly Willingham had

served in that organization, had been promoted

through the officer ranks to lieutenant colonel,

but there was nothing in the documentationsupplied that suggested he had ever served as an

Air Force officer.

I asked about this and was told that

Bruce Maccabee or that Todd Zechel had

checked out his background. Zechel had died a

couple of years earlier and Maccabee told me he

thought that Zechel had verified Willinghamscredentials. In other words, there was no

evidence that anyone had ever attempted to

learn if Willinghams claims of extended service

in the Air Force and the Air Force Reserve were

true.The only record that I could find in St.

Louis where all records of former military

personnel are housed, said that Willimgham had

been in the Army from December 8, 1945 to

January 4, 1947. That makes him, technically, a

veteran of World War Two. He was honorably

discharged as a low-ranking enlisted man in the

grade of E4. They had nothing to suggest he had

been in the Air Force at any time.Torres supplied additional pictures and

documents, but that did nothing to clarify the

issue. Both pictures, in color, showed

Willingham in a blue Air Force uniform, but hewas wearing CAP ribbons and wings,

something that isnt done on an Air Force

uniform. It meant, clearly, that Willingham was

in his CAP uniform.

There was one other thing that was

obvious to me, but not necessarily to someone

who had not served in the military. On the

lapels, had it been an Air Force uniform, there

would have been a US. If the uniform was

CAP, then it would have had those letters,CAP, on the lapel. In the pictures, Willingham

was wearing neither insignia. He had removedthe CAP.

At the MUFON Symposium in Denver

in 2009, Ruben Uriarte gave me several

documents to prove Willingham was who he

claimed to be. These included a document,

allegedly from St. Louis that was a record of his

military service into the 1960s, a Time and

Points document and a Reserve Order that

seemed to confirm both twenty years of service

and that Willingham had been, at least, a

lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve.

It became clear that the first documenthad been altered using white-out and a copier.

Lines were broken in the those areas, but were

whole everywhere else. The notations did not

conform to those normally used by the military,

and there were other errors that suggested thedocument had been altered by someone

unfamiliar with the finer points of military

service.

The Time and Points document turned

out to be irrelevant because it had been created

by Willingham. True, it was now in the

possession of those in St. Louis, but they had

gotten their copy from Willingham. There aretwo points that seem disingenuous. Willingham

has listed two squadrons and suggested in a

handwritten note that they are Air Force

Reserve. But they are, in truth, CAP squadrons.Do we see a pattern emerging here?

The final document was a Reserve

Order that certainly looked official and seemed

to indicate that Willingham had served twenty

years of combined active duty and reserve time

and would be eligible for a pension when he

reached age 60. That applies for those who have

not done twenty years of active duty.

I had hesitated in sending this on to the

Air Reserve Personnel Center (ARPC) inDenver simply because it is a crime to alter

these documents and attempt to gain a pension

through fraud. However, it finally becamenecessary to learn the truth. I sent a FOIA

request to the ARPC and asked if the document

was legitimate. It seemed to me that this would

be of sufficient importance to prove the point. If

authentic then we had our evidence that

Willingham had served.

According to the response I received,

the document was a fake. They told me that it

was missing information that should be on it

including a date and Willinghams serial

number. They also mentioned there had beencongressional inquiries and that they hadsearched the records and could find nothing to

support the claims. The order number was one

that they couldnt find and with everything

computerized these days, it should have been

simple.

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Crash Goes the Del RioUFO Crash


In other words, there is absolutely noevidence that Willingham served in the Air

Force Reserve or that he was a fighter pilot. Norecord of him anywhere and before you say,

Well, the government is covering up because

he was talking about a UFO crash, let me say

this. There are too many places that his name

should appear and it would be impossible to

erase all traces. There are no flight school

records, no documents confirming he was

commissioned, his name does not appear in any

of the various official registries. These records

would be filed in various places which means

even the fire in St. Louis couldnt have

destroyed them.

But lets say, for the sake of argumentthat the failure to corroborate any sort of

military service other than the short tour at the

end of the Second World War does not impress.

Lets say that you believe that his tale is

accurate. Then my question would be which

one?

According to what had been said, Todd

Zechel claimed to have searched for

Willingham after he saw a short article in a

small Pennsylvania newspaper in which

Willlingham was quoted as saying hed seen a

UFO crash. I tried to find that article, but failed.However, I found the next best thing. A

paragraph published in the February/March

1968 issue of Skylook, which was the

forerunner to the MUFON UFO Journal. This

told the original version of the story, and I found

that quite interesting.

The article said:

"Col. R. B. Willingham, CAP squadron

commander, has had an avid interest in UFOs

for years, dating back to 1948 when he was

leading a squadron of F-94 jets near the

Mexican border in Texas and was advised by

radio that three UFOs flying formation were

near. He picked them up on his plane radar andwas informed one of the UFOs had crashed a

few miles away from him in Mexico. He went to

the scene of the crash but was prevented by the

Mexican authorities from making an

investigation or coming any closer than 60 feet.

From that vantage point the wreckage seemed to

consist of numerous pieces of metal polished

on the outside, very rough on the inner sides.

Please note the date, which is 1948, his

claim to have been leading a squadron of F-94s,

that he saw them on his plane radar, and therewere three of them. Notice also that he was not

allowed very close and that the Mexican

authorities were investigating. Note also that itclearly says CAP and nothing about the Air

Force or Air Force Reserve. (And if you looked

carefully, you wonder how he would have

gotten out of the Army in January, attended a

military flight school, and then been assigned to

an operational squadron before the year was

out.)

Now, fast forward to 1977. Willingham

has created an affidavit about his experiences,

probably at the insistence of Zechel. He is beingtouted as a retired Air Force colonel, though

technically, if he is not receiving a pension, or

eligible for a pension, he is not retired. His story

Crash Goes the Del Rio UFO Crash

is a little different. In that affidavit he said:

"Down in Dyess Air Force Base in

Texas, we were testing what turned out to be the

F-94. They reported on the [radar] scope that

they had an unidentified flying object at a high

seep to intercept our course. It came visible tous and we wanted to take off after it.

Headquarters wouldnt let us go after it and it

played around a little bit. We got to watching

how it made 90 degree turns at this high speedand everything. We knew it wasnt a missile of

any type. So then we confirmed it with the radar

control station on the DEW Line (NORAD) and

they kept following it and they claimed that it

crashed somewhere off between Texas and the

Mexican border. We got a light aircraft, me and

my co-pilot, and we went down to the site. We

landed out in the pasture right across the from

where it hit. We got over there. They told us to

leave and everything else and then the armedguards came out and they started to form a line

around the area. So, on the way back, I saw a

little piece of metal so I picked it up and broughtit back with me. There were two sand mounds

that came down and it looked to me like this

thing crashed right in between them. But it went

into the ground, according to the way people

were acting around it. But you could see for, oh

Id say, three to five hundred yards where it had

went across the sand. It looked to me, I guess

from the metal that we found, chunks of metal,

that it either had a little explosion or it began to

disintegrate. Something caused this metal to

come apart."It looked like it was something that was

made because it was honeycombed. You know

how you would make a metal that would cool

faster. In a way it looked like a magnesium steel

but it had a lot of carbon in it. I tried to heat it

with a cutting torch. It just wouldnt melt. A

cutting torch burns anywhere from 3200 to 3800

degrees Fahrenheit and it would make the metal

hot but it wouldnt even start to melt."

So this is slightly different, but not all

that much. Were down to a single object, and

we have outside radar tracking the thing and a

mention of an Air Force base.The changes continue as Willinghamlearns more about aviation history and what was

happening where. The new story appeared in a

book dedicated to the Willingham and Del Rio

crash. Noe Torres, one of the authors of The

Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-

Mexico Border along with Ruben Uriate, wrote:

"A radio message warned Willingham

and others about a fast moving UFO that was

approaching Texas from the northwestern U.S.

Suddenly it came into their view like an

intensely bright light like a bright star seen

through a telescope. It blazed across the sky past

them, and everyone in all the planes saw it. Butbecause of the location of Willinghams jet, he

was in the best position to see what happened

after the object flew by.

"Willingham estimated that the object

was traveling at 2,000 miles per hour, and he

saw it make a sudden 90 - degree turn, without

slowing down. As the UFO streaked toward the

Texas-Mexican border, Willingham received

permission to break from the formation and

pursue the object in his F-86 fighter. Following

the objects vapor trail, Willingham followed it

down to near Del Rio, Texas, where he saw itsuddenly begin to wobble and descend rapidly."

There are additional details about this

available. According to the writers of the book,

Willingham was part of a group of F-86

fighters, and they were escorting a B-47 across

West Texas when they received the message

about the UFO.Willingham also said that the object hit

the ground south of Langtry, Texas, digging a

300-yard long furrow before coming to rest

along side a sandy hill. Uriarte filled in moredetails when he said:

"The aviator [Willingham] returned to

the scene of the crash a few hours later... They

landed the small plane right along side the

crashed UFO and noticed that a large number of

Mexican soldiers had already taken control of

the crash site. They had cordoned off the area

and would not allow Willingham or Perkins to

approach the main part of the wreckage.

However, what they were able to see and look atwas so amazing that it forever changed their

lives."

Before being forced to leave the area bythe Mexican military, Willinghan picked up a

chunk of strange metal debris that was about the

size of a mans hand. He later tried to burn it, cut

it, and otherwise deform it, but was not able to.

The question now becomes, what do we

do with this story? Witnesses, telling stories

from memory, often make small mistakes or

alterations in the tale from telling to telling.

Dates might shift as the witness consults notes

or realizes that he or she has gotten the sequence

wrong. We all expect these sorts of things and areport made in the same way, perfectly eachtime, suggests hoax rather than authenticity.

But where do we draw the line? This

report from Willingham has moved from 1948,

to 1950 and now to 1955. In his original

affidavit, he said that he was flying F-94s but

now says it was F-86s. He says that he was

denied permission to give chase to he was

ordered to do so. He mentions the DEW line

which wasnt established in 1950 and wasnt

operational in 1955.

Couple these major changes to the lack

of documentation of an Air Force career and noevidence that he was ever a fighter pilot, andthis crash tale fails completely. There are simply

too many flaws here to take this story seriously

any longer. The preliminary research, had it

been done by Zechel when he first learned about

Willingham, would have ended this long before

we got this far down the road. Basic research

would have ended the problem but sometimes

we just dont do the basic research. Its a lesson

that never seems to take.

Willingham gave us the clues if we

would listen to him. As his story expanded, we

should have realized there was something

wrong here. When he began to correct errors,errors that he introduced, we should have noted

that. When he was caught with anachronisms,

we should have realized something was terribly

wrong.

We did, finally, learn the lesson. We

checked the facts and we now know the truth

about the Willingham story. All we can do now

is relegate Willingham to a Ufological footnote,

remember our lesson about checking the basic

facts, and move on to something more

important.

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What Really Happened in the Gulf War

What Really Happened inGulf War

Written by Geoffrey Wawro

Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What

Really Happened in 1991, and Why

it Matters

January 22, 2011 (Huffington Post) - It's been

twenty years since we went to war in Iraq for

the first time. The years have been kind to

Desert Storm, which is now remembered as an

unalloyed triumph. But was it? The way Desert

Storm was shaped, fought and finished revealedtremendous indecision in Washington, half

measures on the battlefield, and an inconclusivewar termination that sowed the poison seeds of

Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990 in large

part to extricate himself from the debts of the

Iran-Iraq War, which had raged from 1980 to

1988. The Americans, Japanese and Europeans

had loaned Saddam about $35 billion, the

Saudis $31 billion, Kuwait $14 billion and the

U.A.E. $8 billion. The war had cost Iraq at least

half a trillion dollars, and Iraq had little hope ofrepaying its external debt with oil prices sliding

down to $13 a barrel as the war petered out and

supply picked up.

The Iraqis had been claiming Kuwaitever since the British amputated its territory

from the Ottoman province of Basra in 1899.

Iraqis defiantly referred to Kuwait as their "19th

province" and coveted its hoard of petrodollars

and deep reserves of oil. In July 1990, Saddam

shaped a pretext for war, when he defined

Kuwait's refusal to cede territory to Iraq, cut its

oil production, and forgive its Iraqi war debts as

"military aggression."In Baghdad, U.S. Ambassador April

Glaspie pressed for a clarification of Iraqi

intentions. Her work became more urgent in the

third week of July when Iraqi Republican Guard

units began deploying to Basra in preparationfor what satellite imagery suggested could only

be an invasion of Kuwait. She counseled

patience.

Bush's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

General Colin Powell, was as hesitant as

Glaspie. His military options to retake Kuwait,

National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroftgroused, "had not seemed designed by anyone

eager to undertake the task." The Powell

Doctrine, conceived after Reagan's disastrous

intervention in Lebanon, still prevailed in 1990:

U.S. forces would only be introduced into

conflicts with clear, achievable aims, a visible

exit, and strong popular and congressional

support. Powell considered that none of those

criteria were fulfilled in the case of Iraq's

takeover of Kuwait. He proposed a different

strategy: "grind down" Saddam through "a

policy of containment or strangulation."

April Glaspie met with Saddam on July25, 1990. She believed wholeheartedly in the

Bush plan to "moderate" Saddam Hussein and

make him a U.S. ally. She took as her brief a

memo that had arrived from Secretary of State

James Baker the previous day. Baker had

condemned Iraqi efforts to bully the weaker

Gulf states and had noted the peril "of having oil

production and pricing policy in the Gulfdetermined and enforced by Iraqi guns." But

Baker also affected "to take no position on the

border delineation issue raised by Iraq with

respect to Kuwait."

Imprecision like that had caused the

Korean War forty years earlier, when Secretary

of State Dean Acheson had neglected to include

South Korea in America's East Asian security

perimeter. The North Koreans had interpreted

that omission as license to invade the south. In

1990, Saddam saw an opening in Baker'sapparent indifference on the border issue. What

if he left Kuwait largely intact, but seized the

Rumaila oil field and one or two of Kuwait'sislands? Perhaps the Bush administration would

permit that. The Bush administration itself had

no idea what it would do if Saddam invaded

Kuwait. Instead of facing the question squarely,

President Bush and his key deputies kicked the

can down the road, and merely hoped that

"moderation" would work.

"Do not push us to [invade Kuwait],"

Saddam growled to Ambassador Glaspie. "Do

not make it the only option left with which wecan protect our dignity." After the meeting,

Glaspie cabled Baker and urged him to "ease off

on public criticism of Iraq" until Saddam had

been given the chance to negotiate with the

Kuwaitis at a Saudi-arranged conference in

Jedda. At the Pentagon, hawkish deputies like

Paul Wolfowitz were disturbed by the defeatist

tone of Glaspie's cable, but the actual

presidential letter to Saddam drafted for Bush's

signature by his N.S.C. ran in a Glaspian vein.

Saddam's saber-rattling, his accumulation of

weapons of mass destruction, his brutal policestate, and anti-American and anti-Israeli

rhetoric were resolutely downplayed -- "certain

Iraqi policies and activities" -- and Bush

pronounced himself "pleased" with Saddam's

willingness to attend the Jedda conference thatSaddam himself had convened at the point of a

gun. Although Bush was about to announce a 25

percent reduction in U.S. armed forces -- the

post-Cold War "peace dividend" -- no cuts had

yet been made. Secretary of Defense Dick

Cheney's top deputies at the Pentagon

recommended a stern rewrite explicitly warning

Saddam not to attack Kuwait, but the shilly-shallying N.S.C. letter went out over Bush's

signature. Nothing was done to reinforce the

Kuwaitis, or to open Saudi bases to U.S. forces.

A 2,000-man Marine Expeditionary Unit

remained in the Philippines; no B-52s were sent

to Diego Garcia, and there was not even a Navy

carrier in the Gulf or the North Arabian Sea. Thenearest U.S. carrier, the Independence, was four

days away.

By August 1, it was plain that Saddam

intended to invade Kuwait. He had satisfied

himself that Washington would not intervene to

stop him. Satellite photos depicted corps-

strength Iraqi armor and infantry units on the

Kuwaiti border, Iraqi marines with bridging

equipment opposite Bubiyan Island, dense

concentrations of Iraqi strike aircraft and

helicopters at air bases in southern Iraq, and allthe logistics required for a push down to Kuwait

City. Nevertheless, President Bush was

preparing to depart for Aspen, Colorado toannounce the "peace dividend," and Centcom

commander General Norman Schwarzkopf let

his staff go home early on August 1. By 7 p.m.

Schwarzkopf's staff had all come rushing back

from the suburban subdivisions, gyms, Little

League diamonds and malls of Tampa; Iraqi

mechanized divisions had carved into Kuwait,

driven the emir into exile, seized the capital, and

swiftly defeated weak resistance by the Kuwaiti

army. Iraqi troops picked Kuwait clean in amethodical campaign of looting. Containers

were loaded with valuables and shipped up to

Basra. Iraqi pilots seized Kuwait Airways' jets

and flew them up to Baghdad, along with

Kuwait airport's runway lights and baggage

handling equipment. Cars, trucks, buses,

tractors and just about anything with an engine

was stolen or stripped for parts. Seats were

ripped out of Kuwait's stadiums and movie

theaters for use in Iraq. Kuwait's hospitals,

universities and libraries were stripped to the

bare walls. Beef carcasses were heaved out ofKuwaiti meat freezers and shipped to Iraq.

Kuwait's gem market was picked clean, and 1

million ounces of gold were seized from the

Central Bank of Kuwait and deposited in

Baghdad. Iraqi emissaries circulated around theMiddle East boasting that they had taken $500

billion in cash out of Kuwait; they offered to

share the loot with friendly states who would

accept the Iraqi invasion and annexation. Iraqi

looters, bused in by Saddam to take their places

as "Kuwaitis" in case there were a U.N.

referendum on Kuwait's future, swept through

Kuwait's shops, houses and apartments stealingeverything in sight: televisions, stereos, sinks,

toilets, lamps, rugs, curtains, even cutlery and

light bulbs.

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What Really Happened in

Gulf WarContinued on from Page 9

No one had predicted that Saddamwould actually do something this reckless, but

he had always been a reckless operator. Not

having made up their minds how to handle an

Iraqi invasion, the Bush administration fell toarguing. "Not all wars are avoidable,"

Scowcroft reflected, "and this was perhaps one

of them." Saddam's attack engaged America's

superpower interest in oil as well as its

determination to shape the new world order that

had emerged with the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

Scowcroft noted a basic divide between those

who saw the Iraqi invasion as "the major crisis

of our time" (Scowcroft and Cheney) and thosewho viewed it as a manageable "crisis du jour"

(Baker and Powell) that could be handled by

sanctions, diplomacy and an embargo on Iraqioil.

The U.N. Security Council, the U.N.

General Assembly and the Arab League had all

condemned the invasion and there was

discussion in the White House of an air and

naval blockade of Iraq, but Secretary of Defense

Cheney wanted more than just protests,

sanctions or a quarantine. Saddam was angling

to "dominate OPEC, the Gulf and the Arab

world." His tanks were now forty kilometers

from Saudi Arabia, and even if he didn't taketheir oil wells, he would "have an impact... The

problem would get worse, not better." Saddam's

hasty offer in August of a final peace settlement

to the Iranians and his evacuation of 1,000

square miles of Iranian territory -- the only

spoils from Iraq's eight-year war with Iran --

confirmed that Saddam was clearing the decks

and focusing all of his energies on a fight withthe U.S. Cheney enjoined Bush to lay out

American aims clearly: "we need an objective."

Cheney wanted to fling Saddam out of Kuwait -

- at a minimum -- and perhaps march on toBaghdad to depose him. The U.S. had to

maintain a favorable balance in the Gulf. But

Cheney also worried that the American people

would not support a war to restore the

reactionary al-Sabah dynasty, particularly when

such a war appeared to benefit Japan -- still the

export-driven bugbear of Americans in 1990 --

which imported far more Kuwaiti oil than the

U.S. Congress also wavered throughout, even a

staunch "national security Democrat" likeGeorgia Senator Sam Nunn insisting that only

air and naval forces be used against Saddam, no

ground troops.With Gorbachev's reformers foundering

in the face of counter-attacks from Soviet

hardliners, could America really afford to

embark on war in Iraq? The always cautious

Powell fed on doubts like that. A war with Iraq

would not be easy -- "harder than Panama or

Libya, this would be the N.F.L., not a

scrimmage" -- and such a war as this seemed as

ill-advised to Powell as Vietnam. He chided

Cheney for sounding "Carteresque" in his

resolve to defend the Gulf. Carter, of course,had made all the right noises about defending

the Shah and Iranian moderates, but then

collapsed under Khomeini's pressure. Powell

reckoned that another defeat like that would

destroy American credibility, and he didn't like

the sound of a war with Iraq. "The American

people," he argued, "don't want their youngdying for buck-fifty-a gallon oil." Defend Saudi

Arabia, Powell reasoned, but concede Kuwait to

Saddam. "The next few days Iraq will withdraw,

but Saddam will put his puppet in. Everyone inthe Arab world will be happy." Powell doubted,

as New York Senator Pat Moynihan witheringly

put it, that Americans would agree to put

500,000 U.S. troops in harm's way to rescue

Kuwaiti princes holed up in Saudi Sheratons,

"sitting there in their white robes, drinking

coffee and urging us on to war." Moynihan

reminded President Bush that Kuwait was an

"accident of history," with artificial boundaries

drawn by "the bureaucrats of the colonialpowers." The implication was clear: Kuwait

was not worth the bones of a single American

soldier.


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But General Powell seemed wobbly

even on Saudi Arabia, whose 66,000-man army

would not stand a chance against the Iraqis. "We

must communicate to Saddam Hussein that

Saudi Arabia is the line," Powell advised

Cheney, but then added that even there -- theworld's biggest oil patch -- American

intervention would depend on "popular support"

from the American people and a "national

sense" that the game was worth the candle.

President Bush expressed his frustration with

the uniformed military to his diary: "we had a

long way to go before the military was 'gung

ho,'" -- "our military is waffling and vacillatingin terms of what we can do on the ground."

Cheney too bristled at Powell's pessimism. The

Iraqis had annexed Kuwait and were within

striking distance of Saudi Arabia's Hama oil

fields. The Pentagon's job was not to poll publicor congressional opinion, it was to advise the

president on national security. "I want some

options, general," Cheney growled.

On August 2, Bush chaired an N.S.C.

meeting that featured sharp exchanges between

Powell and the hawks, who now coalesced

around Cheney. Thomas Pickering, the U.S.

Ambassador to the U.N., scolded Powell for

suggesting that the U.S. could maintain itspoliceman's role in the Gulf if it consented to

the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait. Bush too worried

that Powell was overestimating Iraqi force. "Ijust didn't see the Iraqis as being so tough," he

told Scowcroft. After the meeting, Bush flew to

Aspen, where he met with British Prime

Minister Margaret Thatcher; she urged him to

take a hard line with Saddam. "If Iraq wins, no

small state is safe. They won't stop here. They

see a chance to take a major share of oil. It's got

to be stopped. We must do everything possible."

Thatcher compared the move into Kuwait to

Hitler's unopposed moves against Austria and

Czechoslovakia in 1938. Hitler had overrunFrance and Poland with the resources culled

from those nations, and Thatcher worried thatSaddam would annex the resources of Kuwait

and then move on bigger prey like Saudi Arabia.

A hard line, of course, required a war

plan. On August 4, Centcom commander

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf and his air

commander General Chuck Horner flew to

Camp David to give President Bush options. By

now, there were eleven Iraqi army divisions in

Kuwait and Iraqi patrols were scouring the

border with Saudi Arabia. Cheney met King

Fahd, and warned him that without American

troops and aircraft, Saudi Arabia would go theway of Kuwait. Saddam's military was the

fourth largest in the world. The million-man

Iraqi army with its 5,700 tanks was twenty-

times bigger than Saudi Arabia's.

As American units flowed in to backstop

the Saudis (Operation Desert Shield), they

found themselves undergunned and

undersupplied; Schwarzkopf sacrificed logistics

and prioritized men over materiel to create the

impression -- boots on the ground -- of

American strength. Even when attention shifted

to logistics, the U.S. military was found

wanting. Reagan's massive military buildup had

sacrificed unglamorous functions like transport

ships ("sealift") and minesweepers to pay for

high-tech programs like "Star Wars," stealthtechnology, fighter aircraft, attack subs and

cruise missiles. The sea and airlift problems

would later explain Secretary of Defense

Donald Rumsfeld's determination to slim down

the armed services, cut their logistical trains,

and re-focus on "agility" and "mobility" when

he was defense secretary from 2001 to 2006.

By September 1990, 80 percent of

Americans supported Operation Desert Shield,which belied Powell's hand-wringing about

scant "popular support." Most Americans

recognized the need to defend the Western

world's energy security. Americans were alsomoved by a largely spurious $11 million P.R.

campaign paid for by the Kuwaiti government

and crafted by Hill & Knowlton. Its most

effective piece of propaganda was a lie: that

Iraqi soldiers had entered Kuwaiti hospitals,

yanked newborn babies out of their incubators

and dashed them on the floor before packing up

the equipment for shipment to Iraq. That lie was

retailed by the daughter of the Kuwaitiambassador to the U.S., who pretended to be a

Kuwaiti nurse who had witnessed the Iraqi

atrocities. In fact, she was not a nurse and had

not even been in Kuwait when the Iraqis

invaded. Nevertheless, senators andcongressmen swallowed the story hook, line

and sinker. Many of them referenced it when

explaining their votes in support of the war,

which was narrowly authorized by the Senate

52-47 and by the House 250-183 on January 12,

1991.

As the numbers suggested, the entireDemocratic leadership in both houses voted

against the war, and President Bush actually

worried about impeachment if the weak

congressional support thinned and the war

miscarried. That narrow vote to authorize the

Gulf War -- the narrowest since the War of 1812

-- was the first congressional approval of

military action since the Gulf of Tonkin

Resolution of 1964. Iraqi depredations -- real

and imagined -- coupled with the Bushadministration's argument that it was also

fighting to defend American jobs (that depended

on cheap energy), and to punish Saddam's

human rights abuses and weapons of mass

destruction programs (all of which America had

winked at and even supported during the

1980s), awakened American idealism. Here was

a war that needed to be fought in defense of

American values. Still, the vote was close, andhardly amounted to a national crusade.

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry blasted Bush

for making "a series of unilateral decisions that

put us in a box" and "made the war inevitable."His colleague Ted Kennedy beseeched

someone, anyone, to "save the President from

himself, and save thousands of American

soldiers in the Persian Gulf from dying in the

desert in a war whose cruelty will be exceeded

only by the lack of any rational necessity for

waging it." Senator Al Gore, preparing his own

run for the presidency, agreed to vote for the

war only if given a twenty minute prime-timetelevision slot (by Republican leader Bob Dole)

to advertise his vote. New York Senator Pat

Moynihan denied that Saddam's invasion of

Kuwait amounted to an international crisis that

engaged America's values or interests: "Allthat's happened is that one nasty little country

has invaded a littler but just as nasty country."


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Continued on from Page 11

On November 29, 1990, the U.N.Security Council passed Resolution 678, whichgave Saddam till January 15, 1991 to evacuate

Kuwait or face eviction by am American-led

coalition that had swelled to thirty-four nations.

The coalition itself was interesting; it ran the

gamut from lightweights like Argentina and

Bangladesh to serious combat powers like

France and the United Kingdom. Japan and

West Germany, big consumers of Gulf oil that

were politically reluctant to engage in military

operations, chipped in $10 billion and $6.6

billion respectively for the costs of the conflict.

Egypt joined to get its external debts -- $16

billion in 1990 -- written off. Debt forgivenesson that scale and the peerless opportunity to

charge every coalition ship that transited the

Suez Canal a $200,000 toll certainly tempered

Mubarak's disappointment at having to reject

Saddam's bribe of $20 billion, dangled after the

seizure of Kuwait. The Saudis deployed their

military, but, far more importantly, paid heavily

to the tune of $30 billion for war costs.

Saddam still believed that the U.S.

would not risk "another Vietnam." Former

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was

predicting casualties in Iraq of 30,000. Cheney's

Pentagon was predicting as many as 30,000deaths in the first twenty days of combat. South

Dakota Senator George McGovern prophesied

50,000 casualties. The U.S. Air Force predicted

the loss of 150 aircraft, with one-quarter of the

pilots killed, and another quarter captured "and

possibly paraded through the streets of

Baghdad." House Majority Leader Dick

Gephardt threatened to block all funding for the

conflict if Bush proceeded with his essentially

Republican authorization to use armed force

instead of a formal congressional declaration of

war. With terrifying threats, numbers andimages like those floating around -- and

newspaper columnists alternately flaying Bushfor his timidity and bellicosity -- Saddam

assumed that the Americans would shrink from

battle, as indeed did nearly every witness called

by Georgia Senator Sam Nunn's Armed

Services Committee to discuss the military

option.

One after another, the parade of retired

flag officers and secretaries (Admiral William

Crowe, General David Jones, former Secretary

of Defense James Schlesinger, former Secretaryof the Navy James Webb, and former National

Security Agency Director William Odom)

asserted that a war with Iraq would be wrong-

headed and bloody: it would shred the U.S.armed forces and convulse the Middle East.

Senator Robert Byrd insisted that even if the

U.S. delivered a "quick knockout," such a blow

"would unleash a cascade of outcomes and

reactions that would reduce our long-term

ability [to] influence events in that region." Let

sanctions bite, they all recommended, as did

House Speaker Tom Foley, who gave Bush a

letter signed by eighty-one Democraticmembers that warned of "catastrophic

consequences, resulting in the massive loss of

lives, including 10,000 -50,000 Americans" if

America went to war with Saddam.

Having rebuffed American and U.N. demands

that he leave Iraq, Saddam watched the U.N.

deadline -- January 15, 1991 -- come and go.Baker had threatened at Geneva that "midnight

of January 15th is a very real date," and indeed

it was. The next day, Operation Desert Shield

became Operation Desert Storm

Desert Storm began in January with a

massive air campaign -- Operation Instant

Thunder -- whose name was chosen to

distinguish it from the pin-pricking Lyndon

Johnson air campaign in Vietnam -- Rolling

Thunder -- which had gradually increased

pressure. Instant Thunder was front-loaded:

100,000 sorties that dropped 88,500 tons of

bombs on Iraq immediately. The groundoffensive kicked off a month later. A problem

arose: it now seemed clear that the U.S.

coalition would win; the revised war aim was to

grind down the Iraqi military and destroy the

WMD facilities. But the Iraqis were running

away. Could the coalition destroy the bulk of the

Iraqi army and annihilate the Republican

Guards before they crossed back into Iraq and

appealed for a cease-fire? Could they maintain

any leverage over the Iraqis if Saddam simply

abandoned Kuwait?

The most heavily-trafficked line ofretreat was the principal Iraq-Kuwait highway,

which filled with Iraqi infantry columns andvehicles trying to reverse out of Kuwait.

Saddam knew that the Arab members of the

coalition would not join any attacks on Iraqi

units once they had left Kuwait, and suspected

that other coalition partners like the French

would follow suit. Allied forces, racing to hit

the Iraqis before they could cross the Euphrates

River, pounced on the traffic jams along

Highway 8 and slaughtered them. General

Barry McCaffrey called the Iraqi units --

infantry and armor alike -- "tethered goats."Neither the troops nor the officers exhibited any

initiative. Alerted by juiced-up pilots who spoke

excitedly about their easy kills along the Iraqi

lines of retreat, the press began referring to

American strikes on Highway 8 as "the turkeyshoot," the route itself as the "Highway of

Death." "Anything with wings and a bomb

rack" was sent aloft to participate in the

slaughter. Saddam milked the images of death -

- burnt-out passenger buses, private cars, and

even scorched baby carriages -- for all they

were worth in trying to wring sympathy from

the Arab street and world opinion. "The

victimizer had become the victim," two

historians noted. Coalition forces lurched after

the blundering, bleeding Iraqis, Schwarzkopf

screaming into the telephone to speed Franks

up. The Air Force stopped bombing the

coastal highway running north from Kuwait

City through Basra and over the causeway that

bridged the Euphrates. That was a grave error

exploited by the Iraqis, who poured up the road

and out of Kuwait unscathed. It was a signal

failure of jointness and "air-land battle," and

attributable to the growing problem of "friendly

fire" -- far more dangerous to the coalition than

Iraqi fire -- and to fears in Washington that a

second "highway of death" would be politically

calamitous for America's image. Bush frettedthat he would be accused of "butchering the

Iraqis" and "shooting them in the back." Heconceded a cease-fire after just 100 hours of

combat on February 27.


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Gulf WarContinued on from Page 12

The critical meeting in the Bush White

House took place at 1 pm on February 27. Bush,

Scowcroft, Cheney, Powell, Robert Gates and

British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd agreed

that they needed to force terms on Saddam, and

not wait for him to request a cease-fire on his

own terms. The allies agreed -- mistakenly --

that they had destroyed Iraq's WMD capabilities

in the air campaign. Although the Air Force

pronounced itself capable of bombing Iraq"until they're down to two stone axes and a

pushcart" and coalition ground units were

within striking distance of the Iraqi capital -- the

101st Airborne Division sat astride Highway 8 just 150 miles from Baghdad -- the coalition

was losing the will to go on. Thatcher, who

might have argued for a drive on to Baghdad to

remove Saddam, had left office in November

1990, and been replaced by John Major, who

evinced a desire to end the war quickly.

Bush called for a "clean end." The main

thing, Bush insisted, was to avoid "charges ofbrutalization," of piling on just to kill Iraqis in

the war's last hours. Secretary of State Baker

concurred: "We have done the job. We can stop.

We have achieved our aims. We have gotten

them out of Kuwait." But, like everyone else in

the room, Baker worried about "unfinishedbusiness." What would become of the Saddam

Hussein regime? Would the Americans give it a

shove, or let it stand? In Riyadh, Schwarzkopf

was declaring victory at the Hyatt Hotel -- "the

gates are closed ... we almost completely

destroyed the offensive capability of the Iraqi

forces" -- and assuring the press that going toBaghdad was not in the cards. That ingenuous

revelation prompted a startled protest from Paul

Wolfowitz in the Pentagon, who agreed that the

allies probably weren't going to Baghdad, but

considered it foolhardy to tell that to the Iraqis.

Wolfowitz and the other "Washington hawks" -

- the future neo-cons -- were still hoping for acoup, and wanted to keep pressure on Saddam.

In Riyadh, the deputy Centcom

commander, General Calvin Waller, also

expressed amazement at Washington's hasty,

charitable concession of a cease-fire, when onlyabout half of the Republican Guard's equipment

had been destroyed, and before the last bridges

over the Euphrates had been demolished,

effectively bottling up the Iraqi army, most of

which was still south of Basra, squarely in the

sights of the U.S. forces. American planners had

planned to disarm and dismount the Iraqis and

then send them streaming back into Iraq on foot.

That was the kind of image that would humiliate

Saddam and rock his regime. "You have got to

be shitting me. Why a cease-fire now?" Waller

expostulated. "One hundred hours has a nice

ring," Schwarzkopf chuckled. "That's bullshit,"Waller said. "Then you go argue with them,"

Schwarzkopf said. "Them" was the Joint Chiefs

of Staff, the Pentagon, and the Bush White

House. Schwarzkopf had never squared off

against Powell and was not about to begin now.

Powell set the tone in the J.C.S., and talked the

other chiefs into an early end to the war. Desert

Storm had evicted Saddam from Kuwait and

erased the stain of Vietnam, so why fight on?

Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill

McPeak privately protested the "merciful

clemency" offered Saddam, but publicly

supported Powell. President Bush too wanted to

quit while he was ahead. In Washington, the

analogy on everyone's mind was not Vietnam,

but Korea, where a limited American war -- to

evict the North Koreans from the south -- had

slipped (under MacArthur's gung-ho influence)into an unlimited struggle to destroy the North

Korean communists that had dragged on

bloodily and inconclusively for three years and

then left American troops as a permanent fixture

in South Korea. Few wanted to risk this easy

victory and expand American liabilities by

rolling the dice and pushing north to Baghdad.

Powell ridiculed the notion: it was not as if "alot of little Jeffersonian democrats would have

popped up to run for office" in Baghdad on

America's coattails. Still, Bush felt tension and

incompleteness everywhere. "Why do I not feelelated?" President Bush asked aloud. He knew

why. The instigator of the war had survived to

fight another day, and there was little that Bush

could do to change that outcome. In his diary,

Bush wrote of his anger at seeing Baghdad

Radio broadcasting victory even as U.S. forces

trounced the Iraqis. But the coalition would not

support continued combat in Iraq or Kuwait

merely to "destroy Iraqi forces," nor would

many Americans. The war was not cheap either;390 Americans had died in combat, and the bill

for the war stood at about $620 billion. "We

need to have an end. People want that. They aregoing to want to know that we won and that the

kids can come home. We don't want to screw

this up with a sloppy, muddled ending." Within

a year, two-thirds of Americans would come to

believe that President Bush had terminated the

war too soon, and the unresolved issue would

contribute to Bush's defeat in the elections of

1992.

The Hundred Hour War ground to an

equivocal close, over Paul Wolfowitz's

recondite objection that "100-hour war" would

be a politically disastrous term since it would

evoke memories of the 100-hour Franco-

British-Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956. ("Would

99-hour war be better?" Cheney joked.) Bush

had confidently predicted that the Iraqi "troops

will straggle home with no armor, beaten up,

50,000," but they were more numerous than

that, and they had extricated lots of armor.

American surveillance photos of southern Iraqrevealed the depressing news that Saddam had

pulled one-quarter of his tanks and half of his

APCs from Kuwait. Worse, the tanks that

escaped were largely Repu

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