FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries?

[Palehorse]

Ok, what did I say was wrong? Did President George HW Bush initiate Desert Storm or not. Did the US broker an alliance with the arab states to refrain from interfering with US ousting Iraq from Kuwait? Wasn't the stated purpose of Desert Storm to get Iraq out of Kuwait, not to invade Iraq.

Only part you got right was Desert Storm -

The Arab states joined the coalition of they're own free will, under the cloak of the UN. Each one of them also wanted Iraq out of Kuwait and committed arms and troops in support of this initiative.

Desert Sabre (The ground war)
The coalition forces, including US, French, British, and participating allied Arab forces, pursued the retreating Elite Iraqi (including the Republican Guard) out of Kuwait and into Iraq, to within 150 miles of Baghdad.

The troops and their field leadership pressed for permission to go further but were turned around only at the insistence of daddy Bush; whom the allied coalition asked to make the call. Daddy Bush folded, preferring instead to place his hopes on a CIA run operation internally within Iraq, designed to fan the flames of dissent with opposing factions internally, in the hope of SH being overthrown. FAIL!

Thus came the motivation for Junior Bush to tack Iraq onto the war on terror, and finish daddy's handy work. . . FAIL II ! (He lied trying to hide his deep held desire for revenge, and oil).

Members of the Coalition included Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America.

Germany and Japan provided financial assistance and donated military hardware, but did not send direct military assistance.

On 26 February, Iraqi troops began retreating from Kuwait, after they had set its oil fields on fire (737 oil wells were set on fire). A long convoy of retreating Iraqi troops formed along the main Iraq-Kuwait highway. Although they were retreating, this convoy was bombed so extensively by Coalition air forces that it came to be known as the Highway of Death. Hundreds of Iraqi troops were killed. Forces from the United States, the United Kingdom, and France continued to pursue retreating Iraqi forces over the border and back into Iraq, eventually moving to within 150 miles (240 km) of Baghdad before withdrawing back to the Iraqi border with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

[Anne]

You left out the part about many members of the coalition were reluctant to join but were eventually convinced to job because of Iraq's hostility toward other arab nations and offers of financial aid and/or with holding of aid, that the US contributed 73% of the forces. If the coalition had gone further into Iraq and taken out SH it would have risked the arab participation in the coalition. Information from the same article you quoted. 

[damfast]

  May an elephant sit on your head and fart. 

pink elephant farts smell like cotton candy.  i sure hope it is pink and not a chocolate one!!

[Anne]

pink elephant farts smell like cotton candy.  i sure hope it is pink and not a chocolate one!!

[Henry Hawk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrPGoPFRUdc&feature=player_embedded

typical wallstreet protester...

[The Troll]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrPGoPFRUdc&feature=player_embedded

typical wallstreet protester...

  Again Hawk (Squawk) talks out of his ass.  He take one person out of thousands and tries to make him a poster boy.

  Squawk let's see some of your Teabaggers with the guns and machine guns.  Squawk a typical Teabagger.

[me]

  Again Hawk (Squawk) talks out of his ass.  He take one person out of thousands and tries to make him a poster boy.

  Squawk let's see some of your Teabaggers with the guns and machine guns.  Squawk a typical Teabagger.

You'd fit right in with that bunch in NY.  I think you and Ex should fly to NY and participate with them in fact 'cause they're your kind of people.   

[The Troll]

You'd fit right in with that bunch in NY.  I think you and Ex should fly to NY and participate with them in fact 'cause they're your kind of people.   

  You're damn right "ME" (Honey Dipper)  As you know I am on a fixed income.  But you can bet you ass if I lived in New York I would be there.  Again you have your head up your ass, just like Squawk.  You can go back to your house.

[me]

  You're damn right "ME" (Honey Dipper)  As you know I am on a fixed income.  But you can bet you ass if I lived in New York I would be there.  Again you have your head up your ass, just like Squawk.  You can go back to your house.

I kinda thought you would be.... 

[The Troll]

I kinda thought you would be.... 

  That statement was sure a pant load.   

[Exterminator]

You'd fit right in with that bunch in NY.  I think you and Ex should fly to NY and participate with them in fact 'cause they're your kind of people.   

Yes, they are and I'd much rather hang out with them than a bunch of ignorant rednecks like, well, you, for example.

[me]

Yes, they are and I'd much rather hang out with them than a bunch of ignorant rednecks like, well, you, for example.

Yep they're your kind of people    

[Exterminator]

Yep they're your kind of people    

Whereas yours can be found tonight at the Anderson Speedway.

[me]

Whereas yours can be found tonight at the Anderson Speedway.

Yep, real people who you don't have to put up a front for and pretend you're something you're not. 

[Exterminator]

Yep, real people who you don't have to put up a front for and pretend you're something you're not.

No, uneducated hillbillies like this guy: