Posted on 05/20/2002 5:15:55 AM PDT by Ed_NYC
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:06:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Beginning of the Gulf War. Iraq's Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait.
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, fearing for his own adjacent oilfields, requests U.S. military assistance.
U.S. troops based in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to publicly celebrate Christmas or sing Christmas carols.
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