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Summarizing 1-The Solvent Union 2-Israeli Palestinian 3-Israel 4-Arab and Palestinian 5-Iran 6-Surrvent 7-siverals 8-reagan 9-tompson 10-army 11-sussuifally 12-kuwait 13-price 14-traveled 15-british 16-war 17-emir 18-wepons 19-1997 20-all of  21-moved 22-the u s 23-soidlers 24-soilder 25-british 26-kuwait 27-emir 28-bombs 29-soilder 30-british 31-osagens 32-soilers 33-army 34-wars

On August 12, 1990, Saddam Hussein called for compromise, proposing that all cases of ( **34** ) be resolved. This included asking ( **35** ) to withdraw from Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, ( **36** ) to withdraw from Lebanon, and “mutual withdrawals” by Iraq and ( **37** ). Hussein also called for a replacement of US troops in Saudi Arabia with "an Arab force", as long as that force did not involve ( **38** ). U.S. President Bush strongly opposed any "linkage" between the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and the ( **39** ). Saddam Hussein appeared on state television with Western hostages and told one of them -- a young British boy -- that their presence was meant to prevent the ( **40** ).

An unidentified Iraqi official told to the White House that Iraq would "withdraw from Kuwait and allow foreigners to leave" IF the UN lifted ( **41** ), allowed access to the Persian Gulf, and allowed Iraq to gain full control of the ( **42** ) oil field. The proposal also offered to negotiate an oil agreement with the U.S. jointly work on the stability of the ( **43** ). In December 1990, the White House rejected Iraq’s proposal to withdraw from Kuwait. ( **44** ) of the PLO said that neither he nor Saddam Hussein insisted that solving the Israel-Palestine issues should be a precondition to solving the issues in Kuwait. Ultimately, the U.S. refused to negotiate until Iraq withdrew from Kuwait.

‍ Operation Desert Shield
Acting on the policy of the ( **45** ), and out of fear the Iraqi army could launch an invasion of Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Bush announced that the U.S. would launch a "wholly defensive" mission to prevent Iraq from invading Saudi Arabia under the codename ( **46** ). U.S. troops were sent to Saudi Arabia. The U.S. Navy dispatched two naval ( **47** ), and the U.S. Air Force flew bombing missions, dropping ( **48** ) of munitions.