As The Cassandra Page noted, yesterday was the seventh anniversary of the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Nairobi and Tanzania by al-Qaeda. Probably not coincidentally, it was 15 years ago today, Trey Jackson reminds us, that Iraq invaded Kuwait:
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This was a watershed day in the Middle East. Iraq announced that it had annexed the kingdom of Kuwait — moving over 200,000 troops into the tiny, oil-rich country. As Iraq declared Kuwait to be its 19th Province, U.S. President George Bush warned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein,
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