Chapter 671: Singing on stage
The dawn of peace seems to have once again favored mankind, and the Gulf War was the largest local war in human history since the Annan War. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although it is called a local war, it does not make Iraq any less cruel because of it. The so-called local war is only two steps less than the world war, which is just two steps away from the self-destruction of mankind.
No peace-loving human being rejoices in war. And as long as they see a glimmer of peace, they will do their best.
When the peak of the Gulf War turned around, Saddam Hussein showed his willingness to make peace after winning the first battle, and all ordinary people who were paying attention to the situation in the Gulf were gratified.
Although Saddam Hussein was an aggressor, after all, he still reined in from the precipice, and he was still a good comrade who could be saved.
The birth of the 24-hour temporary ceasefire resolution undoubtedly gave peace one last chance. And China, which put forward this proposal, is also well-known internationally.
When ordinary people talk about the situation in the Gulf, they seem to think that as long as the aggressor Saddam Hussein is willing to withdraw his troops and accept punishment, peace will surely come.
And the coalition forces that are now waiting in Saudi Arabia are really righteous troops who are voluntarily dispatched for international peace and justice. Once they have fulfilled their responsibility to maintain peace, they will retire with a deep hiding.
Tut.
Even 30 years later, the country rescued the lost travelers and had to pay for the travelers themselves, and the 700,000 troops of the coalition army, 3,700 tanks and 1,700 warplanes all ran into the desert, is it to learn from Lei Feng and do good deeds?
It's a big joke.
It's just that human beings are sometimes like this, even in the face of obvious facts, they will only believe what they want to believe.
When Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, China's Foreign Minister and Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Boris Spankin rushed to Baghdad, people around the world seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. In this way, the Gulf War should have been avoided, right?
All of a sudden, the media around the world showed varying degrees of optimism. It is believed that since Saddam Hussein is willing to exchange prisoners of war and release hostages, then peace should really come.
But in the midst of this media cheer, few people noticed that several of the world's leading media conglomerates, such as Viacom, Time Warner and News Corp., the key mouthpieces of the Western world, surprisingly remained cold and cautious.
In their mouths, Saddam Hussein, who has always been cunning, is also likely to have released a smoke bomb this time, just to buy more time for his war preparations.
As for the families of the captured US soldiers who are grateful to the Chinese side for proposing that Saddam Hussein exchange prisoners of war, they are not even seen on television.
The procession of peaceful petitions outside the White House can only occupy such a small corner in the news.
But even so, mankind's spontaneous yearning for peace has also manifested a violent public opinion for a while.
In the eyes of global anticipation, the trilateral negotiating delegations were finally reunited in Baghdad.
The foreign ministers of the two permanent members of the United Nations, together with the president of Egypt, a regional powerhouse, Mubarak, are not without luxury. Saddam Hussein personally greeted him at the airport, Baghdad television broadcast the whole process live, and the live broadcast signal was open to all television stations around the world through Soviet lines.
When the Chinese foreign minister stepped off the plane, Saddam Hussein personally waved to the television camera, and then warmly greeted him.
"On behalf of the Chinese Government, Mr. President Saddam, I would like to express our appreciation for your willingness to negotiate the return of prisoners of war and hostages. I hope you will return to the framework of the United Nations and resolve the Gulf dispute in a peaceful manner......"
Before the words from the Chinese Foreign Minister's mouth were finished, Saddam Hussein still held the hand of Mr. Foreign Minister. He saw that the camera had turned around, and the cameraman made an OK gesture, simply interrupted Mr. Foreign Minister's words, and said solemnly with a smile on his face.
"Iraq is deeply grateful to China for its efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement, and in order to demonstrate Iraq's sincerity and recognition of China's work, I declare that the citizens of all countries in Kuwait who are in Kuwait will now begin immediately! ”
After Saddam Hussein's words were spoken to the camera, not only Mr. Foreign Minister, but almost all the viewers in front of the television were stunned.
Anyone who knows anything about the Gulf crisis knows that hostages of various countries are a very important card in Saddam's hand. His original intention was to disperse the hostages in important buildings in Iraq and Kuwait and use this rogue moral intimidation to stop the coalition air strikes.
Now, as soon as the Chinese foreign minister set foot on Baghdad soil, he has not even finished a sentence before he has given up this hand? On the one hand, this is Saddam Hussein's sincerity for peace and his renunciation of the scoundrel practice of moral blackmail.
On the other hand, Saddam Hussein has really given China a lot of face this time.
He just looked at the camera and announced to the whole world that it was because of the "work" of the Chinese side that he decided to release the hostages. It's equivalent to saying, "I'm doing this all for the sake of China's face." ”。
Of course, on the surface, Saddam Hussein made this decision because of China's work for peace, but how could the top leaders in China not understand why Saddam Hussein gave China this face.
To put it bluntly, Saddam Hussein had the capital to pull back from the precipice because some of China's "jobs" were really good enough.
Hu Wenhai's catalogue of attachments and giveaways left a deep and surprising impression on Saddam Hussein, so the dictator looked at all Chinese differently.
When Saddam Hussein and Mr. Foreign Minister shook hands and turned to the side, showing their intimacy, the sound of the shutter suddenly clicked.
At this moment, the families of the Kuwaiti hostages, who have attracted much attention from all over the world, can no longer stop their weeping expressions from appearing on television.
This time it is not for the monopoly media to be controlled, just like the results achieved by the brain platinum advertising in a large number of provincial and municipal TV stations. The Kuwaiti hostage crisis involves a large number of countries, including citizens of almost all developed countries in Europe and the United States.
The so-called thousand dead people in Syria are not as good as a picture of a Turkish beach. More than 100 people died in a concert in France, and the whole world was in mourning. But similar terrorist attacks are almost a common occurrence in the Middle East. Human life in developed countries in Europe and the United States is in fact more valuable than human life in other places.
European television stations, local television stations in the United States, and media outlets, if there are local residents who are being held hostage in Kuwait, are even less likely to show indifference to their own citizens.
Even CNN and NBC, which are the national news networks in the United States, can only pinch their noses and admit that Saddam Hussein can be saved, rather than a heinous and evil regime.
The Chinese side, which contributed to Iraq's "lost way and return", has made a wave of presence felt around the world, and has even gained the goodwill of a large number of hostages' families, including tears.
Chinese say that they first suppress and then promote, and they get more favor than simple praise. In the final analysis, Saddam's actions are similar to this, although the detention of hostages was originally his order, but the decision to release the hostages at this moment has given him a lot of points in the hearts of the people of the world.
As for the Chinese side, which rescued innocent hostages from fire and water, not to mention the praise it received.
President Bush was so depressed that he doubted his life, and it was obviously the United States that presided over the delivery of justice, contributed money and troops, and went to great lengths to fight the invaders of Iraq. As a result, it became that he set up the stage and others sang, but the limelight was robbed by the "little transparent" China, which was really angry and vomited three liters of blood.
Saddam's remarks of being respectful to the Sino-Soviet-Egyptian negotiating group showed his sincerity in striving for peace to the people of the whole world.
The intelligence analysts of the CIA sent the analysis report to the White House overnight, and it felt that the intelligence work of the United States during this period was really done by dogs. The trajectory of the whole world seems to have strayed from the scope of the CIA's understanding.
However, this intelligence analysis sent to the White House in the early morning of the 14th, CIA intelligence officers can be sure that it is at least 75% accurate.
From the complicated intelligence on the 13th, the CIA's veteran intelligence analysts have found the familiar formula and familiar flavor of Saddam. Ah, this feeling-
"Damn, it's a pile of shit!"
The lights in President Bush's Oval Office have not been turned off for more than 40 hours.
The elder Bush, whose eyes were bloodshot, held a cup of espresso in his hand and looked at the group of American political, economic, and military elites sitting or standing on the sofa in front of him.
CIA Director William Webster flew back to Washington overnight, only to be sprayed with saliva just after seeing Bush. The reason lies in the report on the president's desk and the conclusions in the report.
"If Saddam Hussein retains control over Baghdad, what does he want to do? If he wants peace, he can do it, and as a war criminal, Saddam Hussein will be tried by an international tribunal! Peace? Hell peace, if he wants peace, then what are we? What are the US military and the multinational force? Come and leave if you want us? Did Saddam regard the US military as a Filipino servant?"
William Webster said calmly: "Mr. President, the biggest problem now, no, the biggest problem has always been not Saddam's problem, but the Soviet Union. What we need to note is that Gorbachev has regained interest in the situation in the Gulf. If the USSR were to keep Iraq, then they would have the unanimous support of the Arab League. Once the Soviet Union and the Arab League unite, it will pose a mortal threat to the lifeblood of the international economy. ”