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...Saddam is not offered anything that appeals to him, there is the real chance he will opt for a partial and unilateral pullout, yanking his forces back to the northern third of Kuwait, which he considers part of Iraq's Basra province. That would free up Kuwait's main population centers and oil fields but would leave four major oil patches, plus Kuwait's part of Rumaila -- which together account for about 10% of Kuwait's production -- under Saddam's control. While the U.S. and its allies could still invade to force Saddam all the way out, popular support...
...related industries in northern Iraq and some command-and-control centers. But the bombing would probably be concentrated on military targets -- tank parks, antiaircraft and artillery concentrations, roads and bridges, fuel and water depots -- in southern Iraq and Kuwait. The aim would be to turn the area between Basra, a major southern command-and-control center, and the Kuwait border into a "parking lot" -- an area leveled flat, through which nothing could move...
...that the legitimate claim of Kuwait to independence is a fossilized remnant of British imperialism, and that Iraq's claim cannot be brushed aside. However, this view also rests on the legacy of colonialism. Under the Ottoman Turks, Kuwait was supposedly to be administered from the Iraqi city of Basra. In actuality, none of the Ottoman attempts to extend control over Kuwait suceeded. The de facto independence of the Kuwaiti people led by the Al-Sabah family could not be questioned. Thus, Saddam Hussein does not categorically oppose colonialism; rather, he utilizes that form of (Ottoman) imperialism which best serves...
...frontier as his foes assemble their armies. His 56-division, 1.5 million-man force -- last week he called up his reserves -- is clearly on the defensive. In occupied Kuwait his soldiers are digging in. Elite Republican Guard units have been pulled back to join 15 divisions deployed to protect Basra and Baghdad -- or perhaps Saddam himself...
...Iraqi Shi'ites and fomented skirmishes along the border. Iranian forces blunted the Iraqi offensive, and two months after the war began, the conflict was largely stalemated. After years of fighting, Tehran lost all hope of victory when Iraq stopped an Iranian drive for the port city of Basra in early 1987; a year later, Iraq began the offensive that eventually brought Iran to the peace table. The fighting reportedly cost both countries an estimated $500 billion. More than 900,000 Iranian lives were lost; 300,000 Iraqis died during...