Word: kuwaitis
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...introduction may seem heavy-handed at first, with stories of disrupted army families and unsuspecting hostages, but the rest of the book is not so sensationalized. The authors are quick to criticize American foriegn policy as hypocritical and as helping to perpetuate the crisis. They also criticize the Kuwaiti Sabah monarchy for mishandling Iraq and for creating a far less than democratic state...
...Lion and the Lamb," the final chapter of the book, the authors discuss Iraq's claim to Kuwaiti territory. Both Kuwait and Iraq belonged to the Ottoman empire until World War I, and then to the British. Britain set up monarchies in both countries; in Kuwait they merely supported the Sabah monarchy which had been in place since...
Since Iraq's independence in 1958, the country has made sporadic claims on Kuwaiti territory. In 1961, Kuwait gained its independence, and, in 1963, Iraq recognized Kuwaiti sovreignity...
...probably best viewed as a clever public- relations exercise, a dance designed to convince audiences at home and abroad that the anti-Saddam coalition has exhausted every possibility for a peaceful resolution to the crisis before going to war. "When ((Bush)) saw us last month," says a senior Kuwaiti official, "we were told we would hear and see a lot of things that might be upsetting but that he was not going to give in and that in the end it will be important for the world to believe we have spared no effort to bring Saddam to his senses...
Negotiation could do the trick, but what would Saddam give up, and what would he demand in return? Bush has ruled out a territorial compromise -- the Kuwaiti islands Iraq covets, for example -- and he repeated that stance to the exiled Kuwaiti Emir in a phone call shortly after his press conference. But the Kuwaitis themselves had been willing to discuss leasing some territory to Iraq before the Aug. 2 invasion. Such a deal might still be possible if, say, Saddam were willing to downsize his military and destroy his weapons of mass destruction...