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...course Bush the elder had it easy. Iraq had invaded Kuwait and he simply had to convince everyone to apply the UN founding principle, upheld across ideological lines, outlawing any aggression that violated a country's sovereignty. Bush the younger is trying to convince them to violate Iraq's sovereignty to the extent of invading and occupying the country, on the grounds that Iraq has failed to destroy prohibited weapons that could be used in terror attacks. And that's not exactly a no-brainer for the Security Council...
...were 212,000 women on active duty serving in nearly every type of unit, including combat units. Over 40,000 women fought in the Persian Gulf War of 1991, and one out of every five women in uniform was deployed in direct support of the troops in Iraq and Kuwait...
...came as close to breaking even as any nation at war is likely to do. In the 1990s, James Baker, then the Secretary of State, flew hither and yon rattling a tin cup and looking for contributions to the cost of battle. Saudi Arabia ponied up $16.8 billion, Kuwait $16 billion. Japan, which 12 years ago thought it was about to be a superpower, gave $10.7 billion, while a grateful, newly unified Germany gave another $6.6 billion. All in all, the Pentagon eventually put a $61.1 billion price tag on the war, of which other nations paid...
Turkey is not the only nation that will seek financial compensation for backing a foreign power. Both Israel and Jordan are already doing the same. The Administration is helping to broker arrangements by which Jordan will be supplied with oil from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on the same preferential terms (a 75% discount on the market price) it now receives from Iraq. Last week Dov Weisglass, director-general of the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was at the White House for talks with Gary Edson, an economic and national-security aide to Bush. The Israelis, sources familiar with...
...Saddam. But if the family were required to put up resistance to an invading force, he will have the first right to the AK-47. Not only is he the patriarch, he's also a war veteran: as a medic during the Gulf War, Zaki saw active duty in Kuwait. "I know how to use a gun very well," he says, without a trace of bravado. "You won't find an Iraqi man of my age who hasn't experienced...