their negligence suit with Neil Bush and the other Silverado figures for $49.5 million. See the New York
Times, June 9, 1991.
- Webster G. Tarpley, "Is Bush Courting a Middle East war and new oil crisis?", Executive Intelligence
Review, March 31, 1989. In early August, 1989, after the pro-Iranian Organization of the Oppressed of the
Earth had announced the its execution of US Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, Bush did post a
battleship and a carrier to the eastern Mediterranean, and a carrier in the northern Arabian Sea, thus
threatening both Iran and Syria, whose forces went on alert in the Bekaa Valley and elswehere. - "Stop Bush's Rush to World War III," New Federalist, February 11, 1991.
- "Administration Attempts to Blunt Israeli Criticism," Washington Post, March 6, 1990.
- "For Bush, Life on the Run Catches Up," New York Times, July 6, 1990.
- Bush's Gulf Crisis: The Beginning of World War III?, EIR Special Report (Washington, September
1990), pp. 27-28. - Bon Woodward, The Commanders (New York, 1991), p. p. 205-206.
- Nora Boustany and Patrick E. Tyler, "Iraq Masses Troops at Kuwait Border," Washington Post, July 24,
- See also New York Times, July 24, 1990.
- "US Pursues Diplomatic Solution in Persian Gulf Crisis, Warns Iraq,' July 25, 1990.
- Bush's Gulf Crisis: The Beginning of World War III? (Washington: Executive Intelligence Review,
1990), pp. 28-29. - Woodward, Commanders, p. 218.
- Woodward, Commanders, p. 224-229.
- Washington Post, August 3, 1990.
- Washington Post, August 9, 1990.
- New York Times, August 4, 1990.
- Woodward, Commanders, p. 253.
- Woodward, Commanders, p. 254.
- See Maureen Dowd, "The Guns of August Make a Dervish Bush Whirl Even Faster," New York Times,
August 7, 1990, and "The Longest Week: How President Decided to Draw the Line," New York Times,
August 9, 1990. - "Decision Came Saturday at Camp David," Washington Post, August 9, 1990.
- "Transcript of News Conference Reamarks by Bush on Iraq Crisis," New York Times, August 6, 1990.
- Washington Post, August 9, 1990.