I've recently been reading about Gulf War I. I read Rick Atkinson's excellent but unfortunately-titled Crusade. I also picked up the Tom Clancy book with Gen. Fred Franks, and some others: I cleaned out the local branch of our library.
One of the books I got was The Fire This Time: U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf, by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Apparently he was Johnson's AG for two years, '67-69. I mainly know of him as a perennial novelty candidate for LGF's "Idiotarian of the Year" award.
I thought it would be an interesting read -- at the very least, I would get to hear the "other side" on depleted uranium. Sadly, I didn't get that far into the book, but that's OK: I found a website about depleted uranium. Favorite quote: "There is no safe dose of any radiation" (emphasis added). Better stay out of the sunlight, then. And don't eat any bananas.
Anyway, Clark's book starts out blaming the U.S. and its policies for the continuing deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians -- deaths he claims are caused by the imposition of sanctions. The responsibility is all ours, according to Clark, and none Saddam's: he neatly skates around the fact that sanctions were conditional on Saddam's continued flouting of UN Security Council resolutions. Clark is actually refreshingly non-partsian about his criticism of the US government: he dumps on both Bush 41 and Clinton. In other words, he's gone so far over to the left that's he's met the right.
I didn't finish the book, as I implied above. I got to a part where he was complaining that the International Atomic Energy Agency kept insisting on inspecting Iraq's nuclear facilities to determine if Iraq was in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT), and how unfair that was because IAEA never did the same to Israel. That redlined my bullshit meter and I just couldn't go on with the book. See, Israel is not a signer of the NNPT, and therefore is not bound by it. Kinda like a contract: don't sign it, not bound by it. Simple, eh? Now maybe it's asking too much of a former Attorney General, but you'd think he'd at least know that much about international law, wouldn't you?