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amoshaun
this could be a lead in to "their still killing them every day". An excuse to remind people about American military oppression. Here is a link to georg seniors speach the day they invaded iraq in '90. http://www.wakeamerica.com/past/speeches/1990/gbush_011691.html
Also, i did an interview on a demo last monday that i u[ploada audio from to bolivia. Could be helpfull.
Powell Honors Gulf War Casualties
by BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer
^By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer=
KUWAIT CITY (AP) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell pledged Monday
that ''freedom will live and prosper in this part of the world'' in spite of Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein, whose forces were driven from Kuwait 10 years
ago.
''Aggression will not stand,'' Powell said as he joined former President Bush
and Norman Schwartzkopf, the U.S. commander in the Gulf War against
Iraq, in honoring the 148 Americans killed in combat in the 1991 conflict.
They laid a wreath at the U.S. Embassy in tribute to the Americans who
helped reverse Iraq's annexation of its smaller, oil-rich neighbor.
''The use of force was moral,'' Bush said under bright skies to an audience
that included hundreds of U.S. troops who are on duty here to protect Kuwait
from Iraqi threats.
The former president said he did not know if his son, President Bush, will
send more troops here. But, he said, ''the United States will never let Kuwait
down.''
Powell, who was chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, described the
U.S. mission as one of combatting evil.
''We want the world to know our quarrel is not with the people of Iraq. It is
with the regime in Baghdad,'' he said.
Powell's rhetorical campaign against Saddam was sweet music here. Kuwait,
having felt the sting of Saddam, has kept its distance from Arab sentiments
against U.N. sanctions against Baghdad.
''This was a guy who invaded a country that was not doing anything to him,''
Powell said Sunday as he condemned the Iraqi leader as a dictator who has
been stripped of his ''stings'' by the Gulf War and world pressure in the years
afterward.
Powell is trying to persuade the Arabs to maintain U.N. sanctions on Iraq,
but is running into complaints the Iraqi people are suffering as a result of the
economic restraints.
His arguments are that Saddam is at fault and that only about 20 percent of
Iraq's oil revenue is used to help the Iraqi people.
From Kuwait, Powell took his case to Saudi Arabia with a visit to Syria later
in the day his last stop in the region. He is likely to look into reports Syria is
helping Iraq transport oil illegally.
In Syria, official newspapers Monday criticized what they called America's
''double-standard'' policy in the Middle East that on one hand sought to
muster support for sanctions against Iraq and on the other backed Israeli
policy toward Palestinians.
''Washington should play it fair. It should not side with Israeli aggressors on
one hand, and play the part of supporter of U.N. resolutions against other
nations on the other,'' the English-language Syria Times said in an editorial.
On Sunday, Powell had endorsed a Palestinian demand by urging Israel to lift
an economic ''siege'' of the West Bank and Gaza as soon as possible.
The constraints, which include a ban on Palestinian workers going to their
jobs in Israel and the withholding of tax revenues, do nothing to improve the
security situation, Powell said after a two-hour meeting with Yasser Arafat
at his headquarters.
Israel, in an effort to stem attacks on its soldiers and civilians, is using
economic pressure as well as firepower. Peace talks have been shelved, and
Powell said it will be a long time before they resume.
Before seeing Arafat, Powell met Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem but evidently
was unable to persuade Israel's incoming prime minister to ease that
pressure. Still, Powell said the Bush administration's commitment to Israeli
security was ''rock-hard.''
Before landing in Kuwait, Powell said Israelis and Palestinians are in touch
with each other on security issues. ''Whether that will bear fruit, I don't
know.''
On peacemaking, he described Sharon and Arafat as leaders looking down a
long hallway, with a settlement at the end. ''They have the keys,'' Powell
said.
But, he said, ''it's going to take some time before they get back to
negotiations.''
In continued West Bank violence Sunday, a Palestinian motorist was shot
dead by Israeli soldiers and two Israeli motorists were shot and wounded.
Powell, on the second day of a six-country, four-day trek, went from the
West Bank to Jordan, where he discussed Middle East peace and U.N.
sanctions against Iraqi sanctions with King Abdullah.
Jordanian leaders have ''a clear understanding Iraq's program of weapons of
mass destruction has to be dealt with,'' Powell said en route to Kuwait. ''They
are solidly in line with what the U.N. has been doing, so I had a receptive
answer.''