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...making the offer, the Baghdad government said any withdrawal of its forces "must" be linked to a pullout of Allied forces from the region-and "should" be tied to an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied lands...
...last time the U.S. tried "to preserve our national honor as guarantor" was during the Vietnam War. This objective, according to a memo from Assistant Secretary of Defense John McNaughton to Lyndon B. Johnson, was the prime motive of U.S. intervention in southeast Asia. He thought a pullout would irreparably damage U.S. credibility throughout the world. So the U.S. remained in Vietnam. Ultimately, U.S. credibility was damaged precisely because it chose...
...curled up with Shakespeare and Sophocles, studying for a morning exam on tragic drama. I'll tell them I was not where I was expected to be, either--huddled around the television set, watching Ted Koppel count down the minutes to the United Nations deadline for Iraq's pullout from Kuwait...
...deadline for Iraq to get out of Kuwait or face war, White House officials were giving reporters and some Congressmen a different impression. Saddam, these officials seemed to be suggesting, might have two days beyond the deadline, or even more, to stave off an attack by beginning a pullout. Kuwaiti sources believe that Saddam got the same message from Arab intermediaries, who were unwittingly fed the disinformation...
...days or whenever, he would begin withdrawing some troops from part of Kuwait, and maybe more later. How many initially, how many subsequently, how fast, from how much of Kuwait? That would all depend on what terms the allies and the U.N. offered to have him continue the pullout...