Word: kuwaiti
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...Kuwaiti officials reject compromise under which Iraq would pull troops out of most of Kuwait. Oil prices drop below $30 a barrel. Iraqi forces in Kuwait wire emirate's oil refineries with plastic explosives...
...question of "national sovereignty" is another deception. Kuwait was created by Britain in 1932 without consideration of its people's history, specifically to block Iraq's access to the Persian Gulf. Iraq has been trying to take Kuwait back since Kuwaiti independence in 1961. The existence of independent states here does not constitute real nationhood. What we should really be concerned with is the welfare of the people involved...
...hardly counting on the politicians for an eleventh-hour reprieve. Having already conscripted much of Iraq's able-bodied adult population into the armed forces, Baghdad last week began drafting all 17-year-old males. According to the Pentagon, Saddam Hussein poured an additional 20,000 troops into the Kuwaiti theater. That brought the total Iraqi force there to 530,000; the U.S. and its allies will have 630,000 troops in place by mid-February. Bracing for a battle that might reach all the way to Baghdad, the Iraqi government advised foreign diplomats to leave the capital...
ASSUME for a moment that, instead of Kuwait, Switzerland was invaded. What if a million-strong, battle-hardened army swarmed accross its borders? Pretend that Swiss, rather than Kuwaiti, women are being raped in the streets of Geneva rather than Kuwait City...
...self-righteous protesters outside the yard, think how horrified you would be if one Swiss woman was raped by an Iraqi soldier. The rape of many Kuwaiti women by Iraqi soldiers doesn't seem to bother...