LONDON: As the 30th anniversary of the end of the Gulf War approaches, much interesting historical detail and context can be found by reviewing official UK government documents that were only made public in the past few years.
For example, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher compared Saddam Hussein to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler when Iraq invaded Kuwait. She also described him as a “selfish, despotic dictator” who engaged in “psychological warfare,” according to papers that were declassified and released in 2017.
Feb. 28 marks 30 years since the end of the Gulf War. It concluded when US-led coalition forces liberated Kuwait from the Iraqi dictator’s invasion and occupation that began in August the previous year.
Prime Minister John Major said Wednesday that allied troops were firmly in control of Kuwait City and added that the British ambassador might return to the.
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When in 1990 U.S. Secretary of State James Baker assured Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would not expand one inch eastward after German reunification, he was not alone in making that commitment.
Documents declassified a few years ago establish that the same pledge was also made by President George H.W. Bush, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, CIA Director Robert Gates, French President Francois Mitterrand, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, British Prime Minister John Major, and NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner.
The Dalai Lama is totally unfazed. In Buddhism and in many other religions, they see sex only as a means of procreation, of reproduction. I don t believe that.
I pause but he goes on. One American has asked me `is it all right to do it with the mouth, with the hand, in the wrong hole. I always say the same thing. If it involves compassion, if it is safe, and if there is mutual consent, then there is nothing wrong.
Ten minutes into the interview, we are talking about oral sex and masturbation. To say I am stunned would be an understatement.