From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 12:43:35 +0800
To: "Eric Cordian" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Subject: Re: The Political Education of Eric Tune
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On 2/20/98 1:32 AM, Eric Cordian (emc@wire.insync.net)  passed this 
wisdom:

>> Listen up jerk, in case you didn't get any news during 1990, 
>> Iraq attacked Kuwait, and murdered thousands of Kuwaitis.
> 
>Iraq, mislead by the US into believing that there would be no 
>interference in its long-standing dispute with Kuwait, annexed it, 
>providing a pretense for the US to do some dirty work for the 
>Israelis, who did not want to tolerate an Arab military giant in 
>their region.
>
>Kuwait provoked Iraq far more than places like Panama and Grenada 
>have provoked the United States, when US forces poured in to remove 
>existing governments, and install regimes sympathetic to 
>Washington, also killing thousands of uninvolved civilians. 

 Somewhere in there I also remember reading about the fact that Kuwait 
was slant drilling into a major Iraqi oil field and systematically 
pumping it for all it was worth. Not exactly kosher! Many greater 
conflicts have been begun for far more trivial transgressions.


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