How do the Kuwaiti people feel about america?

[2Thick]

If that's true then why the heck go over there and immediately expel them?

Because Kuwait's oil is very important to the US (and they found out that Iraq was not going to share the Kuwati oil with the US).

Plus, if you have not noticed, Kuwait is on the Persian Gulf and has almost as much oil as all of Iraq.

 

[HUCKLEBERRY FINNaplex]

So were we not already getting oil from Kuwait before the Iraq invasion?If so,why allow Iraq to invade?

 

[Lao Tzu]

Its not b/c they don't LIKE the US.

Its simply b/c to them the US represents a BAD influence in terms of their religion and way of life.

You have to understand the religious mentality there.

Look at how conservative they are, and how they treat their women. Alcohol is illegal and so is advertising sex.

Now, take a look the the US MTV Rap culture. Booze, drugs, sex half-naked girls whatever.

They simply don't want the US culture to rub off on their own.

Thats it. Simple I'll grant you...but thats the ghist of the problem.

And BTW, nothing will change that...except maybe time.

Fonz

True, but its also a sense of humiliation that is behind their rage. I think Arabs feel entitled to be no. 1 because they were no. 1 for about a millenium and they probably feel like gods chosen people for being muslim. Now they are arguably the poorest, most ignorant, most repressed/backwards area on earth, and have become nothing more than western civilizations gas station. That pisses them off too. Must suck going from the star quarterback to the guy who towels off the second string fullback.

 

[2Thick]

So were we not already getting oil from Kuwait before the Iraq invasion?If so,why allow Iraq to invade?

the thing was that the US ambassedor said that what Arabs do is none of our concern (i.e. we do not care if you take over Iraq), then the upper guys realized that Iraq would not give us the oil at the same price as the iraqi...

or... the Royal Fam said that we would sell it to the US very cheap if they kicked saddam out (considering that they would have nothing if saddam won).

 

[KAYNE]

THE U.S. DIDNT ALLOW THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT. KUWAIT WAS TAKING OIL FROM A TRANSITIONAL AREA BETWEEN IRAQ AND KUWAIT IN '88. THEY WERE TAKING IT THE WHOLE TIME IRAQ AND IRAN WERE FIGHTING. SADDAM GOT PISSED B/C HE THOUGHT THE OIL WAS HIS.

I'M NOT SAYING THAT THE U.S. ONLY WENT IN TO GET RID OF IRAQ. I'M SURE THEY WERE INTERESTED IN THE OIL BUT THE U.S. DIDNT ALLOW THE INVASION TO HAPPEN. IF THEY REALLY DID FIND OUT IRAQ WASNT GOING TO SHARE OIL WITH THE U.S., THAT WAS JUST EXTRA INCENTIVE TO GET IRAQ OUT OF KUWAIT.

 

[Fonz]

True, but its also a sense of humiliation that is behind their rage. I think Arabs feel entitled to be no. 1 because they were no. 1 for about a millenium and they probably feel like gods chosen people for being muslim. Now they are arguably the poorest, most ignorant, most repressed/backwards area on earth, and have become nothing more than western civilizations gas station. That pisses them off too. Must suck going from the star quarterback to the guy who towels off the second string fullback.

Yes...lol They do seem to be stuck in the "Good old days" so to speak.

Fonz

 

[2Thick]

THE U.S. DIDNT ALLOW THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT.

I heard the televised meeting and read the official transcripts.

You have not, so be quiet.

 

[Lao Tzu]

the thing was that the US ambassedor said that what Arabs do is none of our concern (i.e. we do not care if you take over Iraq), then the upper guys realized that Iraq would not give us the oil at the same price as the iraqi...

or... the Royal Fam said that we would sell it to the US very cheap if they kicked saddam out (considering that they would have nothing if saddam won).

Nice try hommie, but here is an interview with Tariq Aziz, Deputy Prime minister of Iraq

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/aziz/2.html

She didn't tell us anything strange. She didn't tell us in the sense that we concluded that the Americans will not retaliate. That was nonsense you see. It was nonsense to think that the Americans would not attack us. In the early hours of the 2nd of August, the whole apparatus of the leadership took precautions for an American speedy immediate retaliation.


Not only that, but the day after the invasion the UN security council made a resolution condemning the invasion. If the US didn't care we wouldn't have made the resolution.

 

[KAYNE]

I heard the televised meeting and read the official transcripts.

You have not, so be quiet.

DID I EVER MENTION THAT BRUCE LEE WAS MY BIOLOGICAL FATHER?

 

[HUCKLEBERRY FINNaplex]

the thing was that the US ambassedor said that what Arabs do is none of our concern (i.e. we do not care if you take over Iraq), then the upper guys realized that Iraq would not give us the oil at the same price as the iraqi...

or... the Royal Fam said that we would sell it to the US very cheap if they kicked saddam out (considering that they would have nothing if saddam won).

AHHH,gotcha...Well that seems to be almost on par with the govenments current mindset,although the true reasons behind this one are more cloak and dagger due to there being no clear cut defined reasoning,except for the bullshit,"Liberate the Iraqi people" spin.I think even the most avid government supporters(if they truly anylize the day to day events leading up to and into the war)have to agree that liberating the irqi people was NEVER a reasoning to march into combat when UN negotiations were going on.There is something definiterly going on special interest wise,but like I said before,most of us will never find out the truth.