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Only two years after invading Kuwait, our old acquaintance Saddam Hussein (looking healthy and heavily re-armed by the French and the Chinese) has just welcomed his fellow Arab leaders--including the Emir of Kuwait and the King of Saudi Arabia--to the Arab League summit. Cordiality and warm embraces have replaced the fighting words of the "Kuwait incident," and the failure of the West to make progress on the Palestinian issue has reunited the Arabs in their hatred of the "Zionist occupying entity," Israel, and its allies in Europe and North America...
Gelb said, however, that he did support Bush's decision to use military power in addition to economic sanctions against Iraq in January. Sanctions alone would have significantly delayed Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait and possibly broken the allied coalition, he said...
...This is our land," said Al-Duwaila, the acting commander of Kuwait's 7th Armored Battalion. "Kuwait is not free if there is one Iraqi soldier on our land...
Bush called off the pursuit of Iraqi forces on February 28, declaring that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated...
...Duwaila said he was confident that the U.S. commander, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, would eventually ensure that Kuwait's long-disputed borders with Iraq were protected...