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ating its commitment to Saudi Arabia's security in 1990 deployed 500,000 US troops to the kingdom to expel Saddam Hussein's forces from neighboring Kuwait. In the eyes of Saudis, that war not only proved unrivaled primacy of the United States on the international stage, it also demonstrated loyalty to
le remaining superpower, the US was best positioned to restore the status quo in the Middle East. And while Obama reiterated at a recent address at West Point that the US remains the sole "indispensable" nation in the world and that it must continue to lead because "no one else will," he also acknowledged
a and its affiliated organizations have killed untold thou=ands of Shiites in the past 11 years—in particular, in Iraq. In fact, in=2007, groups in Kuwait that pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda issued a fatwa=97a legal pronouncement by a religious scholar—against the Shiite government in Iran. From the b
bels, but from all evidence little or no material help actually =allowed. Finally in late May 2014, the president himself announced in his speech at West Point a decision to give=additional aid to the rebels: "I will work with Congress to ramp up s=pport for those in the Syrian opposition who offer the bes
her U.S. war in the Middle East Richard L. Russell February 5, 2013 - Shortly before he left office in Feb. 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told West Point cadets that "in my opinion, any future defense secretary who advised the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middl
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029801 →fore 1990, moreover, no one predicted that Iraq, having just ended a bitter eight-year war with Iran, would swing its battered forces south to invade Kuwait. So if it's conventional wisdom that the United States will not, or should not, intervene militarily in the Middle East or South Asia after it draws
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029802 →Entities connected to both Kuwait and West Point

Jeffrey Epstein
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Barack Obama
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Bahrain
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Yemen
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Donald Trump
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Bashar al-Assad
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Middle East
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Lebanon
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Marc Rich
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Bill Clinton
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Cairo
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Tunisia
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Saddam Hussein
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Hosni Mubarak
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Morocco
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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