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Kuwait breaks ranks on Saddam
Telegraph ^
| 9/2/02
Posted on 09/01/2002 5:43:08 PM PDT by Ranger
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To: Ranger
And so it starts, and before it's over the Arabs will be falling all over each other to approve the "Great Satan"'s coalition. Arab support for Saddam may be a mile wide, but (excepting maybe Syria -- only because it's next on the list) it's an inch deep.
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09/01/2002 9:19:24 PM PDT
by
Stultis
To: section9; exmarine; Khepera
We've told the Kuwaitis that the party is on. That's the only reason why the Kuwaitis, normally so cautious, would come out like this. Very likely. However, the War Against Iraq won't begin until December of this year.
To: Jack-A-Roe
Bribery...
To: Dog Gone
...the more we act determined, the more friends we'll suddenly have.That is true in a great many areas of life.
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To: VRW Conspirator
Do I sense a crack in the "sand coalition"?I was going to say a break in the iceberg, but yours is the better metaphor. I've been thinking all along the public is having to endure a waiting game while ducks are getting counted and deals struck. We do, after all, have to leave Iraq in a stable condition and this will require much change in the ME. If we pull this off, we might live to see a world at peace.
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:58:23 PM PDT
by
GVnana
To: Texaggie79
I'd pay good money to see what went on behind closed doors for this to happen.I'm thinking there's a lot going on behind closed doors and in a pretty treacherous environment, too. Going to be interesting to watch the chips fall.
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09/01/2002 10:02:13 PM PDT
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GVnana
To: Yehuda
Those surely come with air conditioning right ? And window tint ! Gotta have window tint !!
Stay Safe !!
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posted on
09/01/2002 10:04:17 PM PDT
by
Squantos
To: Dog Gone
Kuwait is probably the least wretched country in the Middle East.
Contrast Kuwait with Iraq, or even Saudi Arabia, and you get the picture.
D
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To: Dog Gone
***It's going to be on his timetable, though, not that of the newspapers or commentators. It certainly won't be with regard to the "nuke 'em all" crowd.***
BINGO! And thank God!
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09/01/2002 10:59:24 PM PDT
by
justshe
To: Ranger
"While Saddam Hussein continues to keep Kuwaiti prisoners of war, and continues to televise threats against Kuwait, we consider the war against Iraq to have never ended. {snip} He's the closest thing the Middle East has to Hitler." This man gets it.
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posted on
09/01/2002 11:53:23 PM PDT
by
bootless
To: KevinDavis
I think Kuwait will increase in the size after the war with Iraq is over. Give the oil fields to Israel so that OPEC gets a Jewish member, and the rest of Iraq to Kuwait and Jordan.
To: Young Rhino
I think that if Iraq were to break up (a distant possibility at the moment) it is Iran that would jump in and take a slice of the pie, in southern Iraq. They have historical links in the area, and it is very strategic for them.
To: mathtac
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09/02/2002 1:26:00 AM PDT
by
tomkat
To: Ranger
Is any other news source carrying this story?
g.
To: Yehuda; Ranger; Snow Bunny; Alamo-Girl; onyx; Republican Wildcat; Howlin; Fred Mertz; ...
Kuwait breaks ranks on Saddam Excerpt:
Saudi Arabia, which America used as a base during the 1991 Gulf War to drive Iraqi invaders from Kuwait, has so far refused to open its territory to American forces for a new war against Baghdad.
A Kuwaiti government official said: "If America asks for support Kuwait will give it. I expect the same response from all Gulf states. There may be the need publicly to be anti-war, but under-the-table deals are being struck."
Twelve years after the Iraqis invaded, Kuwait again looks like a prosperous Gulf emirate, but the trauma caused by the seven-month occupation remains, and with it the growing sense that the only way to achieve regional stability is through military action to remove the Saddam regime.
See article at #28 also folks!
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