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KUWAIT CITY (AP) - The days when a U.S. Army truck could fill up for free at a gas station in this oil-rich state are coming to an end. Kuwait's energy minister said Thursday that U.S. troops are going to have to start paying for fuel. In a gift that must have saved the Pentagon a fortune, Kuwait has not charged the U.S. military for fuel since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Tens of thousands of American Humvees, trucks and armored vehicles have rolled through the country and across the desert border into Iraq during the past two...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2005 – Families came here from 18 states on Feb. 26 to attend a reception at Kuwaiti Embassy so Ambassador Sheik Salem al-Sabah could personally thank them for the ultimate sacrifice their loved ones made to liberate his country during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. A remembrance ceremony in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, where many of those killed during the Gulf War are buried, followed on Feb. 27. "We in Kuwait thought, 'What can we do to show our appreciation for the families of those fallen in the war that liberated my country?'...

Bush Halts Offensive Combat; Kuwait Freed, Iraqis Crushed MILITARY AIMS MET Firing Ending After 100 Hours of Ground War, President Declares By Andrew Rosenthal Special to The New York Times ashington, Thursday, Feb. 28 -- Declaring that 'Kuwait is liberated' and Iraq's army defeated, President Bush ordered allied forces on Wednesday night to suspend offensive military operations against President Saddam Hussein's isolated and battered army.Mr. Bush said the suspension, which began at midnight Eastern time, would continue as long as Iraq did not attack allied forces or launch missile attacks on any other country. In an address from the...

October 27, 2004JOHN KERRY'S JOURNEY | THE SENATE YEARS2 Kerry Votes on War and Peace Underline a Political EvolutionBy TODD S. PURDUM ASHINGTON, Oct. 26 - On Jan. 11, 1991, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts took the Senate floor to make a clear, impassioned speech against passage of a resolution authorizing the first President Bush to use force to eject Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces from Kuwait."Are we supposed to go to war simply because one man - the president - makes a series of unilateral decisions that put us in a box, a box that makes war, to a greater...

Federal News Service APRIL 25, 1991, THURSDAY HEADLINE: HEARING OF THE EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE SUBJECT: PROSPECTS FOR NORMALIZATION OF US-VIETNAMESE RELATIONS CHAIRED BY: SENATOR ALAN CRANSTON (D-CA) SEN. CRANSTON: It's now my pleasure to call on Senator John Kerry, who has been a leader in this area as in so many others. And it was a special reason and background for his deep interest in a more sensible policy toward Vietnam. John? SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA): Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate this hearing which you and I talked...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 - A federal panel of medical experts studying illnesses among veterans of the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf has broken with several earlier studies and concluded that many suffer from neurological damage caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, rejecting past findings that the ailments resulted mostly from wartime stress. Citing new scientific research on the effects of exposure to low levels of neurotoxins, the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses concludes in its draft report that "a substantial proportion of Gulf War veterans are ill with multisymptom conditions not explained by wartime stress or...

The best reason to be skeptical that John Kerry has the gumption to defend America's vital interests and allies is not that he has been all over the map about this current war in Iraq. Although such erratic behavior is unpresidential, Kerry's unwillingness to support military action in 1991 against Saddam Hussein after Iraq had invaded and raped neighboring Kuwait is the best reason to question his judgment. The lesson of history -- Kerry's Senate vote against the first Iraq war that hindsight shows to be a reasonable and necessary conflict -- makes his claim that he would be willing...

After a bitter confirmation hearing, the U.S. Senate votes 52 to 48 to confirm Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. In July 1991, Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to sit on the Supreme Court, announced his retirement after 34 years. President George Bush quickly nominated Clarence Thomas, a 43-year-old African American judge known for his conservative beliefs, to fill the seat. Thomas had been chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) during the Reagan administration, and in 1990 Bush had appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals. As the confirmation hearings for Thomas' Supreme Court nomination...

The Iraq Survey Group recovered this recording of Saddam and senior officials discussing the use of WMD. This discussion was part of a more general meeting that appears to have taken place during the second week of January, 1991. This is of particular interest as it provides a compelling demonstration of Saddam's personal interest and involvement in WMD planning and preparation. Saddam: I was talking to 'Abd and I told him there is no need to make a big fuss about these suits because we are going to use them in this special occasion, even if it is a Chinese...

Candidate Harkin Stretches the Truth Vietnam isn't the only instance. BY JAMES M. PERRY Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT (Editor's note: This news article appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 26, 1991.) WASHINGTON--If running for president is a game of truth or consequences, then a lot of Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin's critics would like to see him face the consequences. Already in the presidential campaign, the Iowa lawmaker has found himself accused of misleading reporters about the troubles of his deaf brother. In addition, the budgetary mathematics he weaves into his basic stump speech have been challenged...

VIETNAM ALLUSION TK: Monday I dwelled a bit on one of John Kerry's many yet-to-be-exploited-but-blindingly-obvious vulnerabilities: his vote on the 1991 Gulf war. I noted in that post that the vote could be potentially devastating to Kerry, not so much because it portrays him as soft on national security, but because it makes him look like he takes whichever side of whatever issue happens to be most politically advantageous. (Or, as Mickey Kaus would have it, whichever side he thinks is most politically advantageous, however wrong he turns out to be.) Turns out I was giving Kerry too much credit....

On Special Report with Brit Hume (on Wednesday, 8/11 I think) Brit cited a 1991 quote from Kerry. I don't think it was from the Congressional Record; it may have been a comment he made on one of the Sunday shows. Anyway, Kerry was quoted as saying that there is no difference between voting to give the President the authority to wage war, and a vote for the war itself. This was one rationale he gave for voting against Desert Storm I. If he said this, he contradicts his current position that giving the President such authority is simply a...

NEWSWEEK: Declassified 1991 Report From Defense Department Links Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez to Medellin Cartel Sunday August 1, 11:11 am ET NEW YORK, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A newly declassified Defense Department intelligence report dated September 1991, that lists more than 100 people believed to be associated with Colombia's notorious Medellin drug cartel includes the name of current Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez, a Washington ally, Newsweek reports in the current issue. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040801/NYSU003 ) The report describes Uribe as "a Colombian politician and senator dedicated to collaboration with the Medellin cartel at high government levels. Uribe was linked...

Uncle Sam officially broke off relations with Havana under the 1961 Trading with the Enemy Act. Not so for Teresa Heinz-Kerry, who in 1991, using a Canadian connection funded by her Tides Foundation, linked the communist country up to the World Internet. The Toronto-based Web/Nirv, Canadian affiliate of the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) and its offshoot the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), used a 64 KBPS undersea cable IP link from Havana to Sprint in the United States, linking Cubans to the Information Highway. IGC and APC are one of the Tides Foundation’s largest ongoing projects. A massive, 24-hour,...

ELECTION 2004 Did Kerry make up jet-pilot story? Seasoned flyers doubt yarn about taking controls over Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 5, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com It's been a tough week for John Kerry's credibility. He's been called unfit to be commander in chief by many of his Vietnam comrades and commanders. He's been criticized for accepting a Purple Heart for what amounts to a scratch on his arm treated with a Band-Aid. Now, seasoned jet pilots are calling into question his latest claim – taking the controls of a fighter and flying it over Israel in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - John Kerry wasn't kidding when he told the Anti-Defamation League that he had a different perspective on Israel. Probably no one else in the room has seen the country upside down from an Israeli Air Force jet. Kerry said Monday that Tel Aviv kept denying his request to fly one of their planes, but that the colonel who was showing him around Israel during a 1991 visit not only got him into a trainer, but let him take the controls. "I take it off, we go up into the sky, climb up, head down toward Aqaba," the...

Terrorist attacks: "In the long run, such a war could lead to renewed terrorist attacks on Americans as a result of our having killed innumerable Arab civilians." - John Kerry, Jan. 11. Kerry was quoted as a part of the Desert Storm Hall of Shame!

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Iraq (news - web sites) was three years away from producing a nuclear bomb before the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites), the No. 2 Iraqi scientist on the secret atomic program said Tuesday, offering a rare insider's assessment. Noman Saad Eddin al-Noaimi, a former director-general of Iraq's nuclear program, told The Associated Press the Iraqis were able to produce less than 2.2 pounds of highly enriched uranium before the program was halted. It is estimated that a bomb would require at least 22 pounds. "Producing the appropriate amount would have required at least two more...

STUTTGART - A suspected former Red Army Faction terrorist will go on trial next month on charges of helping plan and carry out a 1991 bomb attack on a busload of Soviet Jews in Hungary, a court in southwestern Germany announced Monday. Andrea Klump is charged with 33 counts of attempted murder and setting off a bomb, and could face a life prison sentence if convicted. She already is serving a nine-year sentence in Germany for helping plan the failed 1988 bombing of a Spanish disco frequented by U.S. seamen. Klump, 46, is accused of bombing the bus in Budapest,...

FReepers: I'm posting this here so you all can mine it for some good info. Enjoy! JMS -------------------------------------------------- SEN. KERRY: We will now move to the second panel, General Vessey. And while you take your seat, if I could turn to my colleagues for their opening statements, and in the case of the openings, we'll proceed in the order of seniority by which people are seated, and I turn to Senator McCain. SEN. MCCAIN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll try to be brief because we're all very interested in hearing from General Vessey. We're tasked with examining the question of...