I'm proud to announce that Kuwait's foremost progressive society, The Graduates Society - founded by my late father and other progressives - has just formed a Kuwaiti-Iraqi Reconciliation Committee. (Arabic link)Its objective is to heal the damaging rift that formed between Kuwaitis and ordinary Iraqis in the wake of Saddam's aggression over Kuwait. It has called on Kuwaitis to help rebuild Iraq not just with bricks and mortar but morally and psychologically as well. Saddam drove a huge wedge of hatred between the two nations which, up until August 2 1990, enjoyed terrific relations between its people. Sure, there were claims on Kuwait made by Saddam's predecessors but they somehow didn't have much of an impact on the people.

The question now is this: WHY THE HELL ISN"T THIS BEING PROMOTED AND MILKED FOR PUBLICITY TO COUNTER ALL THE FALSE ACCUSATIONS BEING HURLED AT KUWAIT??!!