1990-91 President Bush attacks Iraq, called the Gulf War, public and congressional support for which is given a huge boost on the testimony of a nurse who claims she witnessed Iraqi soldiers In Kuwait City hospital grabbing babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. It is later discovered that the "nurse" in question was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States and that she hadn't lived in Kuwait at the time. Her story had been hatched by the Hill and Knowlton public-relations firm and was a lie -- a successful lie.
1991 May 19. A few weeks after filming had begun on Oliver Stone's movie, JFK, the Washington Post's national-security reporter George Lardner, Jr., writes a scathing review of the film based on a stolen copy of the first draft of the screenplay.
1991 December 20. Stone's film, JFK, is released.
1991 On December 24 President Bush grants pardons to six former members of the Reagan/Bush administration facing prosecution in the Iran-Contra scandal.
1993-2000 President Bill Clinton bombs Iraq,
Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Sudan, etc., killing untold numbers of people, while
maintaining economic sanctions on Iraq, shattering Yugoslavia, and savagely destroying much of Serbia.
1996 May 12. On CBS's Sixty Minutes Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says that the deaths of over 500,000 Iraqi children as a result of the sanctions are worth it.
1997 The Project for the New American Century, a neo-conservative enterprise, three of whose signees are Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Jeb Bush, is launched. Among other things, they call for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Ten signees of the statement of principles go on to serve in the George W. Bush administration.
1999 On April 26 CIA headquarters was named the George Bush Center for Intelligence in honor of former president George H.W. Bush who served as CIA Director for 357 days.
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