"Death to the imperialist!" shouted Iraq's General Abdul Karim Kassem. "Return Kuwait to its homeland!"
Sprinting from speech to speech on the third anniversary of his revolutionary regime, volatile Kassem repeated last week that he would not use force to "liberate" Kuwaitand in the next breath threatened force against Britain. "We shall launch a bitter war against the British if they do not heed right and abandon oppression!" he told the crowds after reviewing a 2½-hour parade of troops and weapons in Baghdad's Liberation Square.
For all his brave talk, Kassem was in a tight corner. Britain announced that it was withdrawing...
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