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Kuwait Quotes
If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.
Lawrence Korb
Damn
Give
Carrots
Kuwait
Grew
I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.
Tulsi Gabbard
Police
I Am
Medical
Leader
Deployment
Iraq
Kuwait
Military
Military Police
Officer
Platoon
Police Officer
Served
Unit
Am
First
Second
Two
Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.
Dick Cheney
Today
Power
Decision
Control
Almost
Belonged
Certainly
Fact
Hussein
In Fact
Iraq
Kerry
Kuwait
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Senator
Still
Had
Would
Kuwait has been a strong partner to the United States, and the royal family has maintained an enduring and sincere friendship with my family for generations.
Neil Bush
Friendship
Family
Strong
Partner
Enduring
Generations
Kuwait
Maintained
Royal
Royal Family
Sincere
Been
Has-Been
States
United
United States
My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.
Yasmine Hamdan
Parents
Dad
Brilliant
Engineer
Abu
Civil
Divorced
Greece
Kuwait
Later
Lived
Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.
Chelsea Manning
Time
Black
May
First Time
After
Arriving
Black Hole
Camp
Confinement
First
Hole
Jail
Kuwait
Military
Placed
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?
Michael Ignatieff
Down
Question
Building
Size
Abruptly
Invasion
Iran
Iraq
Kuwait
Reversed
Saddam
1980s
After
Course
Cut
Him
His
Policy
Since
Spending
Tried
Up
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'Rourke
City
Dubai
Pretty
Gorgeous
Abu
Actually
Center
Give
Going
Got
Kind
Kuwait
Nearly
Over-The-Top
Striking
Thing
It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.
Douglas Feith
Dangerous
He
Against
Tyrant
Hussein
Invaded
Iran
Kuwait
Mid
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Had
Known
While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.
Ginny Brown-Waite
Government
Democracy
I Am
Support
Glad
Kuwait
Population
Am
Changing
Congress
Giving
Half
Leaders
Only
Policy
Should
Voice
While
In the 1970s, the only places on the Arabian Peninsula where women were working outside the home or school were Kuwait and Bahrain.
Jamal Khashoggi
Women
Home
School
Only
Arabian
Bahrain
Kuwait
Peninsula
1970s
Outside
Places
Were
Where
Working
I grew up all over the world, including countries such as Sweden, Norway, U.S.A., and Kuwait.
Johan Renck
World
Up
Over
Norway
Kuwait
Sweden
Countries
Grew
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It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
You
I Am
Know
Tell
Fired
Kuwait
Missiles
Rumored
Am
Any
Been
Has-Been
Here
Now
Were
Why
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.
Jesse Jackson
Love
People
Matter
Nation
American
American People
Capital
Kuwait
Months
Seen
Whom
Just
Our
Well
There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
Jesse Jackson
People
More
Than
Been
Disenfranchised
Kuwait
More People
Washington
It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
Caspar Weinberger
War
America
Risks
Country
Demonstrate
Gulf
Gulf War
Kuwait
Muslim
One Friend
Overrun
Prevent
Stolen
Also
Being
Did
Effect
Friend
Iraq
Major
Make
More
Small
Take
Than
Took
Want
Willing
As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.
Jennifer Granholm
Sacrifice
Dinner
Thanksgiving
Small
Compared
Gesture
Governor
Iraq
Kuwait
Served
Troops
Visited
Our
Them
Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Kenny Marchant
Last
Year
Last Year
Middle
Afghanistan
Kuwait
Middle East
Traveled
Troops
Visit
East
Iraq
As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.
P. J. O'Rourke
Freedom
Free
Nation
Everyone
Another
Arabs
Arguably
Baghdad
Claimed
English
Itself
Kuwait
Off
Playing
Survived
Turks
Turn
Been
Has-Been
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
School
High
High School
Find
Average
Bombs
Kuwait
Smarter
Student
Least
Our
Than
I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Great
I Am
Parents
Born
American Citizen
Britain
Citizen
Egypt
Egyptian
Great Britain
Kuwait
Malaysia
Seventeen
Am
American
Grew
Lived
Since
States
United
United States
Up
Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands.
Yasmine Hamdan
Music
Language
Back
Loved
Baker
Bands
Bush
English Language
James
Kate
Kuwait
Radiohead
Singers
Western
English
Had
Listening
Lot
Say
Started
Would
In the late 1980s, the United States and Israel believed that they had good intelligence on Iraq, but they missed the extent of Saddam Hussein's pursuit of unconventional weapons - until after he invaded Kuwait.
Ronen Bergman
Good
Intelligence
Late
He
Extent
Hussein
Invaded
Iraq
Kuwait
Missed
Pursuit
Saddam
Unconventional
Weapons
1980s
After
Believed
Had
Israel
States
United
United States
Until
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.
Richard Dawkins
Future
War
Help
Irreplaceable
Could
Current
Era
Historians
Hussein
Invasion
Kuwait
Provided
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Sanctions
Subsequent
Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.
Gary Miller
World
Energy
Pump
Land
Crude
Crude Oil
Kuwait
Producing
Shell
Vast
Venezuela
Companies
Countries
Market
Oil
Sell
The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security instruments were likely to achieve the necessary goal, which was the reversal of Saddam Hussein's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.
Richard N. Haass
War
Achieve
Necessity
First
Hussein
Instruments
Interests
Invasion
Iraq
Iraq War
Kuwait
Likely
Occupation
Reached
Reversal
Saddam
Stake
Vital
Because
Goal
Necessary
Other
Point
Were
Where
Which
We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.
Jose Ramos-Horta
Future
World
Support
Some
Assistance
Bank
Borrowing
Considering
Fund
IMF
Infrastructure
Kuwait
World Bank
Development
Our
President George H. W. Bush soon launched Operation Desert Shield, sending an enormous contingent of troops to Saudi Arabia. But once there, what exactly were they to do? Contain Iraq? Attack and liberate Kuwait? Drive on to Baghdad and depose Saddam? There was no clear consensus among foreign policy advisers or analysts.
Greg Grandin
I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.
Rana el Kaliouby
Family
War
Born
Moving
Arab
Boston
Gulf
Gulf War
Kuwait
Muslim
Studied
Adult
Before
First
Grew
Lived
United
Until
Up
We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region.
Emma Bonino
Location
Aware
Kuwait
Besides
Region
Stable
Strategic
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