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...spite of these considerations, to wait and see what sanctions could do, the next step would have to be rotation of U.S. troops out of the region. Their numbers would have to be cut to just enough to deter an Iraqi attack on Saudi Arabia. That kind of pullout would give Saddam a propaganda windfall by enabling him to claim a great victory over the foreign invaders. Once again, he could say, the Americans lacked staying power. After a year or two, even if Iraq's military strength has deteriorated badly, Washington could find it politically difficult to mount either...
...Saddam probably would be overthrown and assassinated by his own people if he withdrew unconditionally from Kuwait." Though many experts doubt that this would happen, the dictator might have to be convinced that he runs an even greater risk of being killed in a war that only a complete pullout could avert...
...foreign ministers underscored that point in their communique last week, rejecting "any initiative tending to promote partial solutions," a reference to a less than complete withdrawal by Iraq. They also disapproved of attempts to link an Iraqi pullout to "other problems," meaning the Israeli- occupied territories and Lebanon. The foreign ministers stressed, however, that the E.C. is committed to contributing "actively to a settlement" of those issues once the current crisis has unraveled. That was merely a bolder version of the Bush Administration's own doublespeak on the topic of linkage...
...peace plan Paris unveiled in Luxembourg. It contained two elements that are offensive to Washington: 1) the implication that Baghdad need only promise to leave Kuwait to forestall an attack, and 2) an implied linkage of the kind Saddam seeks -- that is, a guarantee that once the pullout is complete, all outstanding issues of the region will be addressed in an international forum. Apparently, however, Iraq did not see a rift that was exploitable; at week's end Aziz turned down an invitation from the E.C. ministers for a separate meeting...
...Warbah islands, as well as the tip of the banana-shaped Rumaila oilfield that dips slightly into Kuwait from Iraq. Washington says a liberated Kuwait could make these and any other concessions to Baghdad it chooses but vehemently opposes rewarding Iraq's aggression with such promises before a pullout...