Word: iraq
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Although I served most of my time in the Saudi Arabian desert just south of Iraq and Kuwait, I was in Kuwait City last March, right after the end of the war. Many others have written about the joy of the Kuwaiti people after their liberation, but I want to add some thoughts about the real meaning of one man's heart felt "thank...
...impact of bombs and marauding armies was bad enough. So why did Iraq have to dump millions of gallons of oil into the fragile waters of the Persian Gulf and thus devastate its marine life? And set an estimated 650 oil-well fires that spewed untold tons of smoke into the air? Some of the direst predictions, including altered weather patterns across Asia, failed to materialize, and the well fires were put out in only eight months (actually faster than expected). But in Kuwait itself, the air remained acrid the whole time, and the oil that seeped into the sandy...
...arms- manufacturing and -acquisition operation in Tunisia, according to Africa Confidential, a respected newsletter published in Britain. State Department officials say they have proof that Saddam is using the North African republic as a clearinghouse for black-market weapons purchases to confound the United Nations team monitoring Iraq's chemical- and nuclear-arms program...
Earlier this year, Cuomo again confronted his fear that he wasn't fully prepared. He blundered by suggesting that the U.S. consider a negotiated settlement to the gulf crisis that could have left Iraq with some Kuwaiti territory and oil. But the real obstacle this time was a different worry. On one level it was as the Governor stated: he had -- and has -- an obligation to resolve New York's fiscal crisis. At another level it was politics, pure and simple. Cuomo knew what an aide to George Bush confided only a few hours before the Governor announced that...
...polls, and insinuations of financial wrongdoings, he suffered a particularly disappointing setback when parliament effectively killed a government measure to let Japanese soldiers serve overseas in United Nations peacekeeping operations. After harsh criticism in the West for Japan's failure to participate in the gulf coalition against Iraq, Miyazawa was determined to ease his country's strict limitations on military service abroad. The bill was approved by the Lower House of the Diet after sometimes violent debate, but when the Prime Minister tried to push it through the Upper House, support drained away...