This was yours truly earlier this week, sitting on the beach at the Hilton Kuwait Resort, keeping on eye on Iraq & Iran. No, I'm not wearing an abaya. I'd just come from the gym and had on some baggy pants which got caught up in the wind.
I could be on the beach any where in the world, right? 21 years prior, Kuwait was invaded by Saddam Hussein's Iraqi troops. They actually came down to Saudi, to the city of Khaji.
For seven months, Kuwait was occupied by Iraq who said the motivation was actually to reunite Kuwait, a former Iraqi province, with its mother country as it had been split off into its own sheikdom by Britain in 1913.
By 1991, a U.S.-led coalition stepped in to run Hussein's puppet army and government out of Kuwait. Oh, and btw, NONE of these actions had ANY thing to do with oil. Right.
Anyway, didn't get into Kuwait City, the capital. It rained the entire three days we were there.
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