Slouching Toward Fallujah

in UWM Post (Milwaukee, Wis.), Nov. 13, 1990

One of the currents running through these Somewhatback Saturday posts of mine has been 30-year-old cartoons of mine. That current is now hitting the warm-up to Gulf War I, which I've covered in a number of other posts already, including just four years ago. Which seems a long time ago, I know. Well, I will probably want to mark the 50th anniversary of Nixon's resignation if I'm still around four years from now, in spite of reminiscing about it here last week. I guess four years is long enough.

in UW-Parkside Ranger (Kenosha, Wis.), Nov. 15, 1990

So here we go again. In case you haven't gotten to 1990's history in whatever education system has been cobbled together in your area, the war came about in response to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's invasion and annexation of the emirate of Kuwait in August, 1990. U.S. President George H.W. Bush spent the rest of the year cobbling together a coalition of nations in support of diplomatic and military action against Iraq to restore Kuwaiti sovereignty.

in UWM Post, Nov. 15, 1990

Diplomatic pressure on Iraq yielded only defiance from Hussein.

in Journal Times, Racine, Wis., Nov. 23, 1990

This is one of very, very few of my Journal Times cartoons that were not about local or state issues. I would have preferred not to have to label Neville Chamberlain or Lyndon Johnson, but one can't always count on every reader to recognize every caricature.

in UW-Parkside Ranger, Nov. 29, 1990

The Bush administration reached out to and received encouragement from Syria's President Hafez al-Assad, long a foe of U.S. ally Israel and an ally of the Soviet Union. At this point, war with Iraq became inevitable.

in UW-M Post, Nov. 29, 1990

Even if Saddam Hussein refused to believe it.