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2003-03-13 Arabia

Kuwait elects itself head cheerleader for U.S.

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-03-13 08:44 pm|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One never knows what to make of these professions of friendship. After 9/11, I heard that many Kuwaitis were naming their sons "Osama", because he had humbled the Great Satan. I also heard that the Kuwaitis were indignant on behalf of their Palestinian brethren, 300,000 of whom they tossed out of Kuwait after Gulf War v1.0.

It's not impossible for one or the other group to be a small but vocal minority, I suppose, but I was definitely given to understand that the pro-Americans were in the real minority.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-03-13 21:41:15|| [darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-03-13 21:41:15|| Front Page Top

#2 I know what you mean. But in the case of Kuwait it's undisputably disingenous if they are anti-American. It has to be. We didn't take their oil, we didn't annex them. We didn't kill them. We freed them and that was it. So whatever they feel for us they know personally is wrong beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Posted by g wiz 2003-03-13 23:02:21|| 2003-03-13 23:02:21|| Front Page Top

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