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...clear. We condemn all forms of violence and aggression. We condemn Iraq's invasion of Kuwait because of moral reasons and because we oppose the order that Iraq's regime represents. We believe that all Kuwaitis who were living and working there before the invasion should decide their own political future, whatever...
PERHAPS the most compelling reason why all Arabs ought to condemn this modern "Saladin" (sic) is because of the endless number of atrocities which he is currently committing against his fellow Arabs and Muslims, against helpless human beings. There can be no justification for the systematic executions, imprisonment, rape, wholesale looting and robbery in Kuwait. Can we simply chalk up these crimes to the neccessities of subduing a conquered land? Would they in time abate? The answer, judging from Saddam's history of human rights violations, is an uniquivocal...
After several liberals rose to condemn the plan as dictatorial, Gorbachev took to the podium. Banging the lectern with his palm, his face scarlet with determination, he expressed his exasperation with those who dawdled while the economy went up in flames. "We're in a very dangerous situation," he said. "Let's not kid ourselves . . . I ask you for the authority to act." He finished to whoops of applause punctuated with shouts of "Let's do it!" There was no quorum in the hall, so no vote could be taken. But given the enthusiastic response to Gorbachev's oration...
...whom King Fahd dislikes anyway, has asked three times to visit the kingdom but has been turned away. Angered by King Hussein's vacillations on the gulf crisis, King Fahd has refused calls from the Jordanian monarch, who also ranks high on the Saudi dole list. By refusing to condemn Saddam, the Yemenites have so infuriated Riyadh that Defense Minister Prince Sultan hung up on President Ali Abdullah Saleh when he phoned recently...
...will not be any attempts by the international community to help liberate them. So what does it all mean? It means that this is not about oil alone. Although oil is a factor, it was the principle of national sovereignty that led the United Nations Security Council to unanimously condemn Saddam Hussein's aggression towards Kuwait, and it is the principle of liberty for which Kuwaiti men, women, and children are now sacrificing their lives...