The U.S. State Department justified its refusal to negotiate with Iraq by stating that it was impossible to take Iraqi proposals seriously while Iraq held thousands of hostages as human bargaining chips.

Authors

• Person: Douglas Kellner Organization: UCLA
  The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner (http://www.gseis.ucla ...

Sources

• The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner (http://www.gseis.ucla ... pages.gseis.ucla.edu Douglas Kellner · UCLA via serper

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• Iraq entity
• United States Department of State entity