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Iraq invades Kuwait on August 2, 1990. US multilateral diplomacy goes into high gear. President H. W. Bush is involved in making the case for expulsion of Iraq with his now famous words: “This invasion will not stand.” And, it did not.
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Tahir-Kheli, S. (2018). The First Gulf War. In: Before the Age of Prejudice. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8551-2_17
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