So we are not deceived again!
These days, we commemorate the treacherous invasion of August 2, 1990, and recall that 75% of Kuwait’s population consists of youth who did not witness the invasion. Moreover, the period from last February, when the new aggression began, until August of this year is the same duration it took the international coalition to liberate us and alleviate our suffering at that time. Yet, we are still at the beginning of the aggression by Iran and its proxies. Back then, the aggression was limited to Saddam’s Iraq, whereas this time, the aggression comes from Iran and its armed militias in Iraq, along with several Arab states. The 1990 aggression targeted a branch or limb of the vast Gulf tree, prompting the rest of the branches to rally with unlimited support until it recovered and survived. This time, however, the new aggression and challenge are directed at the Gulf tree and all its branches. Consequently, what we are facing is far more severe and dangerous than the challenge of the invasion. Therefore, we must employ the same effective recipe we used then: uniting around legitimacy, adhering to the principles of our national unity, and prioritizing Kuwait’s interests above all else. We must show appreciation and respect for our Gulf brothers, our Arab friends, and our international allies, led by the United States, Britain, France, European Union countries, and other benevolent nations worldwide. We must cease hostility toward those who have not been hostile to us, in service to those who never cease displaying blatant hostility toward us yesterday, today, and tomorrow. They will not be satisfied until we are destroyed, leaving not a single stone upon another in our countries!
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Saddam harbored malice and the desire to invade us immediately after his war with Iran ended on August 8, 1988. After preparing for the operation and training his Republican Guard for two years, he paved the way for his crime through strategic deception. During this campaign, he donned the shirt of the Palestinian cause and feigned hostility toward America and Israel to deceive Arab peoples. He then accused Kuwait of conspiring against Iraq to cause harm. He succeeded in making us reject the American aid and support offered to us several times during the crisis. Saddam also relied on Arab leaders, such as President Yasser Arafat, and on Islamist ideological revolutionary movements like the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as leftist groups. History is repeating itself these days with Hamas leaders and those aligned with them.
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The final point:
1. Strategic deception is recurring this time, orchestrated by Iran, its agents, and its mouthpieces, as well as traitors with alternative loyalties. We hear fierce campaigns accusing our countries and those who defend our homelands of being agents for America and even Israel. The issue of the food aid sent by Kuwait to Hamas in Gaza is not yet resolved. Strangely, accusations of collaboration come from journalist agents, suspicious figures, and opportunists. Within the strategic deception that we must guard against, there is a repetition of the claim that the Iranian aggression against us would not have occurred without American bases on our soil. These agents do not ask their benefactor, Iran, why it facilitated the establishment of American military bases in Afghanistan after 2001, and similarly in Iraq after 2003. Why did it not direct its missiles and drones against American bases in non-Arab countries in the region? And why did it accept the establishment of foreign Russian bases in Assad’s Syria, if it were truly against the principle?
2. It is clear that the goal of the campaign by agents, suspicious figures, hired hands, and those with alternative loyalties is to pressure us into demanding the withdrawal of American bases in the Gulf and the nearly 80 countries worldwide hosting them, including major powers such as Britain, Germany, Turkey, South Korea, Greece, and others. This would leave our sparsely populated countries isolated and exposed, easy prey for our enemies. We must cling to these bases. It is enough to see who champions the cause of blaming them for their withdrawal to realize that these individuals are paid outsiders and internal traitors who will not be satisfied until our rising Gulf countries are reduced to ruins inhabited only by owls. As long as we allow the fifth, sixth, and seventh columns, and those who consider our countries their second homeland after their own, to roam freely and spread their poison—including the claim of neutrality between the homeland and its enemies—if that is not blatant treason, then we should hope to remove that label from our national vocabulary!
