Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attacked the Bush Administration for "ignoring history of the Middle East" and trying to use such "client regimes" as Saudi Arabia and Israel to serve U.S. interests...
...Blooming-dales has such a package? If Blooming-dales really wanted to make a patriotic contribution to the men and women at the front, it could have used its resources to send any gifts (children's letters, bibles, souvenirs from home), not just $60, high profit-margin ones, to Saudi Arabia. "Operation Desert Shield from Home" is, in all honesty, callous...
...more serious problem is that our armed forces are not representative of those who debate the issues, those who subscribe to Foreign Affairs, those who can afford to go shopping on Lexington Avenue. Only two members of the U.S. Congress have immediate family members in Saudi Arabia. No one sitting on the editorial board of this newspaper is fearful of immediate departure. And Bloomingdales caters to a clientele who, more likely that not, reads about the crisis, but doesn't go home to sleep alone because a husband or wife is halfway around the world...
WHEN he first ordered the deployment of United States troops to Saudi Arabia on August 9, Bush was hailed for his wisdom and boldness by the American public, by allies, even by Congress. But the early days of Desert Shield are gone, and in his do-it-alone approach to dealing with Saddam Hussein and in shaping what he calls a "new world order," Bush has flagrantly expanded his role as Commander-in-Chief. He's trying to run this one alone...
...York Times poll, believe we are headed for war with Saddam Hussein. But two-thirds of us don't consider oil or Kuwaiti sovereignty--two of the Operation's professed goals--to be good enough reasons to sacrifice American lives. What began as a defensive force to protect Saudi oil has grown into a 400,000-person military presence that's ready for war. And millions wonder why Bush has injudiciously refused to wait for the very sanctions he proposed to take effect. It's not hard to see why we're apprehensive...