In Kuwait, where hatred of Saddam runs deep because of the 1990 Iraqi invasion, Fouad al-Hashem, a columnist for Al-Watan newspaper, said he was overjoyed over the GOP's success.

"The news made me very, very happy," al-Hashem told The Associated Press. "It means that a strike on Iraq is not in the realm of rumor and hearsay anymore ... Now we just have to count the days for when the Iraqi people and the whole area will be saved."

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