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Operation Desert Shield has prevented Saddam from invading Saudi Arabia as he has Kuwait. The aim of our presence in the Middle East was not to "liberate...Kuwait from Iraqi occupation," as Mr. Morgan says. This goal we are trying to achieve through United Nations pressure...
...East: he got a Saudi commitment to pay almost all "in-country costs" (transportation, water, fuel) of maintaining the U.S. forces defending the kingdom, and a pledge from the Kuwaiti government in exile to kick in an additional $5 billion, at least half of which would go to Desert Shield. Britain, though financially strapped, promised a further contribution in the form of additional troops rather than cash. Japanese officials told Brady they would put up more than the $1 billion they had pledged but did not specify an amount. West Germany, which has yet to contribute anything much and whose...
...August 6, President Bush--on the advice of Gen. Colin L. Powell, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--launched Operation Desert Shield with the intent of liberating Kuwait from Iraqi occupation...
...course, some Americans don't have a problem waging war over the price of oil. But for me, Operation Desert Shield represents the negation of every reason that led me to join the military...
With the spectacle of Operation Desert Shield, Gorbachev's joining the U.S. in denouncing dictators and a dubious U.S.-Syrian alliance, I have learned that there are no abiding principles guiding American foreign policy...