mysteryman wrote:parados wrote:mysteryman wrote:
Set,
By this statement can we infer that after the US killed 3000 Japanese after Pearl Harbor we should have stopped?
Can we also infer that after the Us killed as many germans as they killed
American sailors,that we should have stopped?
And Iraq attacked the US when?
When they invaded Kuwait for one.
They attacked,captured,and occupied the US Embassy in Kuwait City.
Oh jeeze, you're making this burroshito up as you go along. The following exerpt is from
The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait: An Eyewitness Account, Lt. Col. Fred L. Hart, Jr. After describing his arrival with his family in 1989, and detailing the deteriorating situation with Iraq and Kuwait in early 1990, he goes on to an account of the invasion.
He then describes the day upon which he went with his family to the U.S. Embassy for his and his family's saftey.
Lt. Col. Hart wrote:At approximately 1130hrs [on August 7, 1990, five days after the Iraqi invasion] a civilian man, westerner in appearance showed up at our villa gate, announced he is from the U.S. Embassy, and had come to escort us in. I had been assigned at the embassy for a year and I knew all the personnel assigned to the post, and I did not recognize this individual. I immediately radioed the embassy and they verified his identity. I then recognized the foreign national driver who was with him, so once we got that straighten out I called CW3 Gene Lord, a close neighbor to coordinate a link-up with him and his family so that we all could convoy in together. The USLOK [United States Liaison Office, Kuwait--a military liaison office] administrative NCO, who was a neighbor of ours, also joined in the trek into the embassy. We began our journey into the embassy with great trepidation of what was waiting for us. Our plan was to use the foodstuffs, cigarettes, and alcohol as bribes to get through the roadblock. I had also taken the precaution to hide the American citizen listing that had been brought to me. The list contained over 500 names and addresses of U.S. citizens living and working in Kuwait. As we pulled out of the Salwa neighborhood, my wife and children were shocked at the destruction that was so close to our house, now they could understand all the shelling, booming and rattling of windows for two days and most importantly why they had to remain away from windows. As we rode in, almost every official Kuwait government building along the route had been shelled, torched, or destroyed. Wrecked and smoldering vehicles littered the highway some with the charred remains present. The once well manicured and green medians were now brown, dried up and trashed. As we came to First ring road Iraqi soldiers and tracked vehicles formed a checkpoint but our lead vehicle, with the Palestinian foreign national who worked for the embassy, spoke with what appeared to be an Iraqi officer. After the brief stop and exchange, the Iraqi road guards waved us through. We turned off First ring just short of the Kuwait International hotel and down a back street to the embassy's rear entrance. Iraqi soldiers and combat vehicles had the entire compound surrounded. Strangely, the Iraqis were now manning the guard post the Kuwaiti National Guard troops had previously occupied. Our embassy foreign nationals told me that the Kuwaiti guards literally stripped off their uniforms and fled when they spotted the Iraqis on the morning of 2 August. We were allowed to proceed and the anxiety did not subside until we crossed over the steel barrier gate and into the enclosed parking lot. The embassy security officer informed us that we would be billeted in the Marine house. This was the small complex used as the living compound for the five Marine guards stationed at the embassy.
So, what is your source for stating that the Iraqis "attacked, captured and occupied" the United States embassy? I would have thought that by now, MM, you'd have learned not to make up historical fairy tales in any thread in which you see me participating. Immediately after the invasion and all throughout the occupation, the United States Embassy maintained a radio communication network within Kuwait City, and provided haven for as many westerners--primarily Americans--as possible. Any foreign nationals, and especially military personnel, loose in Kuwait City were fair game, and they knew it. The embassies were inviolable (the Japanese Embassy, for example, provided have for many Kuwaiti government officials and military officers), and that always works that way, because no belligerant wants their embassies shut down overseas. I'm not even gonna bother with the rest of your fairy tale.
