Word: kuwaitis
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...been out in forward positions with Kuwaiti special forces. But they liked to be back before nightfall. So a few of us stayed out in the forward positions overnight. And suddenly these Iraqis crawled out of nowhere and surrendered to us, a group of journalists. So we had the first prisoners of the war in our hands...
...Arab world are unlikely to spend much of their wealth on the needs of their poor citizens - ironically, an issue receiving more attention from anti-Western demagogues such as Libya's Muammar Ghaddafi and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez than among such pro-Western OPEC pillars as the Saudi and Kuwaiti royal families. And the declining social conditions in countries such as Saudi Arabia create a fertile pool of recruits for the likes of Osama Bin Laden. The demographic and economic projections noted in the report threaten to turn some of the Arab world's cities into impossibly overpopulated hubs...
...never voted to subsidize the growing of tobacco while turning my back on food programs for starving kids. I've never vetoed a gun-control bill; all my guns are fake, Senator. I've never rushed to the defense of Kuwaiti oil fields while ignoring genocide in Africa, because big oil companies that line your fat pockets aren't concerned with black Africa. Those are all your productions of your company.... [The American people] want chase scenes and car crashes. They want firm breasts and tight-assed Latino men. They want their cowboys to be strong and silent. They want...
...interests of the U.S. and its allies - the oil reserves that Saddam Hussein would've controlled if he hadn't been ejected from Kuwait and stopped from invading Saudi Arabia. This was a valid and vital projection of the national interest, even if it meant shoring up Saudi and Kuwaiti regimes that would hardly be deemed democratic by U.S. standards...
...Clinton administration has been hands-off until now, saying it'd let the market self-adjust, but prices have just hit a nine-year high - with American emergency crude oil stores at a 25-year low and the summer driving season approaching. And the announcement last week by Kuwaiti and Iranian officials that they'd vote to retain the production cuts at OPEC's March 27 meeting was the final straw in prompting the White House...