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By Kare D. Floyd
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On Augu t 6, 1990, Presi­
dent Bush ordered military
troops to Saudi Arabia. It wa
at fir t belived to be an act to
keep Saddam Hu ein from
taking over Kuwai t. The
longer the troop stay over
there the more disputes rise.
Many people believe that the
. United States was not going
overseas on the defensive but
rather on the offensive.
While other insist their main
reason for occupation of
Kuwai t i to prevent Sad dam
Hu ein from taking over the
world' oil supply.
According to Pre ident
Bush, American troops re in
Kuwait not only to protect
the worlds oil supply, but to
protect job and stop the ag­
gre ion of Suddam Hus ein.
"The tate of Kuwait must be
saved". Bush say , "but I will
not keep the troops overse s
any longer than necca ary."
Recently, Bush officially
moved the United State
po ition in Kuwait from
defen ive to offensive by
trying to receive help from
the USSR. and ordering
another 100.00� soldiers
over e .
Added to the controvei Y
i th e culating number of
olid rs of color that have
been ern to fight. According
to a recent tudy, of the 65%
of ctive and reserved
military· men and women of
color. 31 % of them have been
ent oversea
"I • I Rf.:I.,Y FEEL
havinu US troop tationed in
uv au i very unt' H to th
troop. E pecralty becau e I
o not thin they are fighting
t protect the United State in
any '\ ay. but to ree tablt h
the US a th bully country
that they really arc. The US
h alv ay med 10 interfere
uh th affair of others.
Thi ituauon i waste of
n m .. Jut I ike V ic t-
n m."
Connie ettl 24 Detroit
"I ha hard that mo t of
the o li de r in Kuw it are
Black m n and women. In a
country that di re peers the
Black race by taki ng away its
the
ability to provide for itselt,�
why should we, as a race,
fight for a system of goveen­
ment that contribute to the
underdevelopment of our
race and <as a result) en ues
racism?"
"I don 0 t t hi n k' the US
should be stationed in
Kuwait, especially not
having as. many Black
solidiers a they do. How can
anyone say that that" large
piece of land be longs to
anyone. Also, why is it that
the US is more willing to
sac ri Iice the lives of non­
whites than those oli whites?"
"I think that America
hould have gove over there
and did whatever they felt
wa necces ary to get the job
done and come home. Then
the troops would not have
had to it around w sting
time, taxpayer money and
most of all deaths due to ac­
cidents.
My brother is over there
and he eve nth ink i tis a'
wa te of time. I think that
al t of the Black olider en­
Ii ted for financial rea on
nd hould have been given
the choice whether or not
they wanted to go over ea ."
"I think that the situation wage.
in Kuwait is harmful becau e
most of our young Black men THE ARTICLE described
are in the military because of the ca e of Laxima Swami.
a lack of opportunitie for foreign worker in the service
them in the United State. j of two Kuwaiti-prince ses in
Many have used the military : Britain, whose pa port as
to get out of the usually poor . taken and her t 0 gold teeth,
si tuation they have found' was kept pri oner in an apart-
the mel ve in. Whi te ment for fou-r year , had to
America does not em to un- sleep on 'a floor, received
derstand or be ab to relate 'very Ii ttle leep, wa given
to thls. How can t e US po - vety little food and no wage ,
. sibly help anoth r country, and wa giv n d ily whip-
when it cannot st nd on it pings.
own two feet?" She r ceived $300.000
ound amage from a
Bri tish co rt.
I. The article went on to ay
the Bri ti h Home Office
rna es' it e y for Gulf Arab
in Britain to import I very
by i uing their ervants ith
, visi tors' �isas and denying
them the ri!8ht to work for ny
. 'other employer.
Anothes ca e, documen ed
Jin Roger Sawyer stu y,
"Slavery on the. Twentieth
. -Ce ntur y, It in 1986. wa
similar to Greer' ,. except it
tnvolved n Indi n and Sri
Lankin ervant of t 0
. fKuwaiti sheikhs.
II The rep rt al 0 indicated
descenda t of African
slaves, bro ght earlier in the
'century, re still held in
bondage throughout the
region.
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"I think that the rea on
there is an unnerving amount
of Black olider in the Mid­
dle East, is becau e White
America decided to use the
aggression of Saddam Hu -
ein to ·kill two birds with
one stone' they will make the
Black help to kill off the
Arabs while at the me time
eliminating a few Black ."
"I am not really sure why
our troops are over in Kuwait
which probably proves that
they are someplace they
should not be. I have family
over there right now. I am
praying for a afe return for
all the troop. Thi entire
situation i sad and unnecces­
sary. America, stop interfer­
ing!"
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Idre k Fo ter 19, Flint
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ource for "Executive I ntel­
igence Review" (EIR), a
Washi ngrqn D.C. wee ly
new magazine, aid he was
per onally erved coffee by a
Bla la e of Ethiopi n
rigin whil at a reception n
ih Emi r 0 Bahrai n' court
'hall. I
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81 la e have v e ny
limit d knowledge 0 Arabic.
but in re ad peak the lan­
guage of Ethiopia and other
African c u tric [rom wh re
theiranc
came.