• sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    I assume you mean under Bush Sr? The only Gulf war googling got me was the one in 1991, and that’s a bit before my time. That’s really cool that you have footage of the protests, are they available anywhere to view at all?

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      5 months ago

      Well some people called it the Iraq War but it was the same war started by his daddy so we just called it Gulf War 2.0. It still lingers, mission was not accomplished.

      I don’t have any of the footage sadly. The documentary never got made. I don’t think anyone has used the footage, probably sitting in a university archive somewhere.

      However there were regular marches of notable size in both Windsor and Detroit, which were loosely coordinated with the millions marching elsewhere around the world. People showed a fair bit of opposition.

      I think some of that energy segued into the Occupy movement too.

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        5 months ago

        Interesting, thanks so much for your reply! I’ll have to dig more into this as my knowledge of the politics of Desert Storm is quite shallow as a non-American.