Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...criticism has more to do with the numbing of our senses to the seriousness of what is going on "over there." The G.I. care-packages are not Bloomies' display of "New Kids on the Block" paraphernalia, to be sold to over-zealous preteens wanting to emulate their idols. Operation Desert Shield is the real thing, and it isn't for sale...
...such a package? If Blooming-dales really wanted to make a patriotic contribution to the men and women at the front, it could have used its resources to send any gifts (children's letters, bibles, souvenirs from home), not just $60, high profit-margin ones, to Saudi Arabia. "Operation Desert Shield from Home" is, in all honesty, callous...
...surely interpret these anti-war sentiments in the United States as a sign of unwillingness to go to war with Iraq. He will choose not to pull out of Kuwait, but to wait and see. Our president's effort of sending our young men and women to the Saudi desert and getting international support would likely be perceived by the Iraqis as a bluff...
...Iraqi parliament yesterday overwhelmingly endorsed Saddam Hussein's decision to free hundreds of Western hostages, but 30,000 fresh troops have been sent to the Arabian desert, indicating Iraq has no intention of abandoning Kuwait...
...additional 10,000 U.S. troops also arrived in the Persian Gulf, Hall said. The 350,000-strong multinational force now includes about 250,000 Americans, most of them dug into the Saudi Arabian desert facing Iraqi troops...