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...When Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviets and Kuwait was invaded by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the world cried out in protest. Yet no country is prepared to demand that China leave Tibet. No matter what China does, the leaders of the democratic world stay quiet. Meanwhile, the innocent Tibetan people pay the price. The U.S. boycotted the Moscow Olympics over Afghanistan. Why is it not boycotting the Beijing Olympics over Tibet? Or is trade more important than the blood spilled in the nearly 50 years since the invasion? Vick Kandiah, Cairns, Queensland...
...IRAQ INVADES KUWAIT Prices jump, then fall as allied forces react...
...influx of immigrant workers from places like the Philippines and India. Mosques are the only houses of prayer in a country where the strict Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam dominates. But Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to the smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula, such as Kuwait and Qatar, has confirmed that talks are under way to establish formal diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, and to eventually allow for Catholic churches to be built there. Pope Benedict XVI is believed to have personally appealed to King Abdullah on the topic during the Saudi monarch...
...didn't really surprise or shock anyone, and we hadn't yet deployed so it wasn't like we thought we were coming home and then found out it would be later. I actually had one soldier who, in his earlier tour, was pulled out of Iraq to Kuwait and they were on the plane to go home, and they had to turn back around to Baghdad. So we were actually kind of happy that the situation had happened, it became a lot easier to accept it, and deal with it, and tell our families ahead of time...
...both Gulf Wars After the war with Kuwait - the first Gulf war - the economic situation went bad. There were a lot of people suffering. And it kept on. We stayed in Iraq. We didn't go out like other people because we managed to keep with it. We expected things to be good, because people had started talking that the Americans were coming, and we expected things to be good for us. Well, it's happened, and in the early days, it was good. You had freedom...