I guess they are too busy crying in their beer over the LAT Poll and this?......
Posted on 09/01/2002 5:43:08 PM PDT by Ranger
Seriously, the wife and I like Bahrain and Dubai (even Qatar now) for our 'every 6 weeks liquor run'. Kuwait has the restaurants and shopping, but I do miss the beer.
Hopefully we make it down to Dubai for the Spring Softball tourney.
Freeguards
I guess they are too busy crying in their beer over the LAT Poll and this?......
Since the physical stick-slip properties of sand can emulate a quasi-liquid phase, it might be better to characterize the chasm as a "shift" in the sand coalition, rather than a crack... Even though this would be cliche..... (Just drinking lotsa coffee this morning...)
hehe, or figuring out what 'spin' to put on it...
Interestingly, Kuwait had been expecting the return of archives and presumably prisoners from Iraq a few weeks ago. I guess neither happened. Curious. Iraq had been running around the world cutting trade deals on favorable terms with all the players that have spoken up in support of it. Kuwait, it stiffed, and now look at the situation.
No fooling. You'd think these people putting all their faith in the UN would understand this.
Where? Certainly not in Kuwait.
The only 'struggle' of this kind that I see is that concocted by the media. I see no such 'struggle' in the administration itself. By many accounts their timetable is already set.
Oh, what handwringing there'll be at the NYT and WP when the attack comes.
The only 'struggle' of this kind that I see is that concocted by the media. I see no such 'struggle' in the administration itself. By many accounts their timetable is already set.
Oh, what handwringing there'll be at the NYT and WP when the attack comes.
Based upon Bush's "take them at their word" philosophy, Iraq is in a very weak position.
You see, when Iraq invaded Kuwait it declared that Kuwait was a legitimate provice of Iraq.
By that reasoning, Kuwait could be given complete control of Iraq after the next war. After all, Kuwait is Iraq, per Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Parliament. By their own words Kuwait could be pointed to as the legitmate heir to lead Baghdad. Kuwait is Iraq. Iraq is Kuwait. With Kuwait on our side, an invasion of Iraq essentially amounts to a mere quelling of a rebellion and a return to legitimate rule, since such an invasion would unite Kuwait with Iraq.
You are brilliant!!
Absolutely....when the new borders are drawn, Kuwait will be larger........
Those people have few working neurons. They hope that a sudden increase in background radiation levels will kick-start their brainstems.
Interesting it took 10 years to get any action on this "post-Gulf War plan"...
IMHO, I wouldn't consider this a "bribe"...I'm presuming the planes are already built, and what do suppose Saddam's reaction might be to Kuwait's now-declared support of the U.S.? They're going to need them, methinks, and expect they weren't about to agitate Saddam until the "deal" was done...
There was no such "ouster." It was in the best interests of the U.S. to leave; the bases there were expensive to maintain, and increasingly without a real mission.
The Filipino politicians may have made noises about being glad the U.S. left, but the population--especially near the bases, were FRANTIC to prevent it.
Maybe the Emir wants to be promoted to King of Iraq and Kuwait.If he could be a constitutional monarch,that wouldn't be too bad.
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