Six weeks after Iraq invaded Kuwait, President George H.W. Bush went before a joint session of Congress on this day in 1990 to lay out the administration’s response to the attack.
With a large U.S. military buildup already under way in the Middle East, the president outlined a series of goals. They included the unconditional withdrawal of Iraqi forces, the restoration of the Kuwaiti government, the promotion of security and stability in the region and the safety of U.S. citizens trapped in Kuwait and Iraq.
Story Continued Below
“Iraq will not be permitted to annex Kuwait,” Bush told the lawmakers in the presence of foreign diplomats, including the Iraqi ambassador. “And that’s not a threat, not a boast. It’s just the way it’s going to be.”
Women’s rights movement prob
The navigation acts, the Enlightenment, and the Great Awakening on the colonists, were events that, although different among themselves, achieved the union of all the colonies, something that would be the precursor of the War of Independence. While the Navigation Acts were increased hostilities of all American colonies against the British; the Great Awakening on the colonists caused the Revolution in the long run. The British ministers were a higher class, but the ministers of the Great Awakening could break the rules; the new beliefs were also much more democratic and their message was of equality; also the first important event in which all the colonies could participate. They were both points of union for the 13 colonies.
Answer: I don’t know I’m trying
Consuls: body in which....
senate: governing body....
assemblies: commanded the....
