gulf war

Presbyterian Record - Vol. 127 Nbr. 7, July 2003

Quaker paints broad, grim picture of life in Iraq since the Gulf War.

General Assembly 2003 - Graduate student and aid worker Richard McCutcheon - Interview

Winnipeg Free Press - August 06, 2006

Author Looks at Human Cost of America's War On Terror

JUST as his father's presidency will always be linked in popular memory to the Gulf War, George W. Bush will be known as the president who started America's "war on terror." [Ron Suskind], the American author of the bestselling and highly critical study of Bush's cabinet, The Price of Loyalty, now turns his attention to the individuals managing and carrying out America's fight against Islamic terror. This focus on personalities is also a weakness, in different aspects of Suskind's work. He pl...

Winnipeg Free Press - March 15, 2009

One Man's Life Under Ruthless Iraqi Dictator

What she found was a proud family that, much like every Iraqi she came across, recalled their country's glory days at the onset of the Ba'ath regime, yet despised Saddam Hussein for his intense hubris. At the conclusion of the Gulf War, [Wendell Steavenson] believes that "the human cogs of the torture machine had become as unhappy as their victims." Thus, there was no rational explanation for the regime's very existence. This fact dominates much of Steavenson's steadfast account, though one o...

Winnipeg Free Press - June 19, 2007

Canadians Finally Get Kuwaiti Medals

"We in Kuwait will never forget Canada's participation," Kuwait's ambassador to Canada, Musaed Rashed A. Al-Haroun, said in a ceremony at 17 Wing Monday. He presented 43 medals to active and retired members who helped free his country during the 1991 Gulf War. "It's a privilege to be recognized by the Kuwaiti government," said [Ivan Groulx], who worked in a field hospital close to the Kuwait border in Saudi Arabia. "I was proud to serve with each and all of them," said [Robert Brinn]. They a...

Winnipeg Free Press - November 23, 2006

The Future of Intervention

Iraq will merely close a post-Cold War chapter in American foreign policy, one that began with the Persian Gulf War -- and with Bosnia. After the collapse of communism in 1989, idealism, the export of democracy and humanitarian interventionism were all the rage among journalists and intellectuals -- much as realism, restraint and benign dictatorship are now. Ten years ago Liberia, Sierra Leone and other countries less institutionally developed than Iraq were considered prime candidates for li...

Winnipeg Free Press - May 08, 2008

Megadeth's Mustaine Making Up for Past Mistakes

"What we do is look for bands what are guitar-oriented that kids respect. If it's somebody promoting kids slashing their arms up and doing stuff like that, we don't want them on Gigantour," he says. "Back in SSRq92 when we were in the Gulf War, Countdown (to Extinction) was a huge success, then in the following years when the economy was going great, who wants to hear, 'I'm an Antichrist,' when you've got a Mercedes in your driveway?" he says. "I think when (music fans) start to have feeling...

Winnipeg Free Press - June 09, 2006

Have Your Say

It's gratifying to hear MP Pat Martin calling CUPE's bluff in its anti-Israel stance that serves to underscore the group's hypocrisy, which it shares with many leftist organizations. Since when have any of them been particularly concerned about the Palestinians? Did they protest when the Palestinian Liberation Organization was driven out of Jordan in 1970? Did they condemn the Arab countries that expelled Palestinian workers after Yassir Arafat supported Saddam Hussein when Iraq invaded Kuwai...

Winnipeg Free Press - February 18, 2010

New On Dvd

On that last score, the movie stars real martial arts star Michael Jai White (Spawn) doing an excellent impersonation of '70s martial arts star Jim Kelly in the title role (why yes, his name is Black Dynamite). Mr. [Dynamite] is an orphan-turned-CIA agent-turned-ghetto avenger, investigating a shipment of drugs apparently meant to be consumed by neighbourhood orphans. ("Not the orphans!") and a toxic brew of malt liquor. On the DVD extras is a whole episode of a British movie series titled Th...

Journal of Comparative Family Studies - Vol. 35 Nbr. 2, April 2004

Migration As a Method of Coping with Turbulence Among Palestinians*

Palestinians have resettled extensively within and outside the Arab World since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the 1967 Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza ([LOUISE CAINKAR], 1988). Indeed, more than 50% of the Palestinian population lives in exile. Many Palestinians are "twice migrants" (Bhachu, 1985). They planted their roots in bordering countries after becoming refugees in 1948 or 1967, or upon locating employment opportunities and safet...