The country with the second largest number, Canada, had just 1,396 locations. Only two other countries had more than one thousand Starbucks stores at this time, China and Japan. Surprisingly, the city with the largest number of Starbucks stores worldwide was found in none of the aforementioned countries.
July 16, 2004. When a prominent American political figure speaks boldly about Jewish-Zionist power, that's news. So the remarks by South Carolina's senior Senator in May 2004 that Iraq was invaded to secure Israel, and that everybody in Washington knows it, are indeed remarkable. Ernest Fritz Hollings, a Democrat who has represented his state in the US Senate since 1966, is now serving his final term in Washington.
The Invasion of Kuwait began on August 2, 1990 when Baâathist-controlled Iraq moved troops into the Emirate of Kuwait. Two days after the Iraqi occupation began, the Kuwait Armed Forces were defeated and Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq at that time, declared Kuwait as the 19th Province of Iraq. The conflict lasted for seven months. Iraq-Kuwait Relations Before the Invasion. Kuwait became an independent nation in 1961, a move that the Iraqi government did not support.