From "Arnborg" <aandersen17@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, in uk.politics.misc on Sat, 21 Jun
2008 09:34:25 +1000 :
>
>"JackieMASON" <lilhornie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:c6888cb1-7c64-4c08-a62a-37488658ad50@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> But it's rumored that Bush has convinced Israeli officials to bomb
>> Iran as a proxy effort on behalf of the U.S.
>
>Maybe.
>
>The US did give permission for Saddam to attack Kuwait. They do strange
>things for strange reasons.
>
>
"She said she was the victim of "deliberate deception on a major scale,"
and
denounced the Iraqi transcript as "a fabrication" that distorted her
position.... "
"In November 1992, Iraq's former deputy prime minister, Tarik Aziz, gave
Glaspie some vindication...."
Did the Great Satan give its OK? Who gave the translation of the
trnascript?
Probably does not matter since you have already decided................
"Eight days before his Aug. 2, 1990, invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein
met
with April Glaspie, then America's ambassador to Iraq. It was the last
high-level contact between the two countries before Iraq went to war.
GLASPIE: In March 1991, she told a Senate committee that 'we foolishly did
not realize [Saddam] was stupid.'
MARCY NIGHSWANDER/AP/FILE
" From a translation of Iraq's transcript of the meeting, released that
September, press and pundits concluded that Ms. Glaspie had (in effect)
given Saddam a green light to invade.
"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts," the transcript re****ts
Glaspie saying, "such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary [of State
James] Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction ... that Kuwait
is
not associated with America."
The Persian Gulf War began Jan. 17, 1991. But before the official end of
the
war (April 11), Glaspie was called to testify informally before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
She said she was the victim of "deliberate deception on a major scale,"
and
denounced the Iraqi transcript as "a fabrication" that distorted her
position, though it contained "a great deal" that was accurate.
The veteran diplomat awaited her next assignment, later taking a
low-profile
job at the United Nations.
In November 1992, Iraq's former deputy prime minister, Tarik Aziz, gave
Glaspie some vindication. He said she had not given Iraq a green light.
"She
just listened and made general comments," he told USA Today. "We knew the
United States would have a strong reaction.
...."
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