* Lambeth Bush with troops: Where did the rhetoric lead?
Saddam: crushing all opposition an uprising.
It is now clear that these speeches were aimed only at top sections of the Iragi military, in the hopes that some form of junta would form to remove Saddam.
The USA wanted to be able to adopt a new ready-made dictatorship, not run the risk of direct political intervention to install an obvious puppet regime or of dealing with unknown Shia muslim, Kurdish and Iraqi civilian political groupings. The popular revolt that took place was not part of the imperialist game plan. As John Major arrogantly summed up:
"I do not recall asking the Kurds to mount this particular insurrection."
Instead the US troops were deliberately moved back and told to politely avert their gaze while Saddam's army weighed in against the rebels using tanks, helicopter gunships, planes, napalm and acid - in continued back page