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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan+Oct 19 2004, 02:52 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Displaced Flames fan @ Oct 19 2004, 02:52 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-FlamesAddiction@Oct 19 2004, 02:50 AM
Saddam Hussein was told by ambassador April Glaspie that the U.S. was not interested in his dispute with Kuwait and would not stand in his way. Shortly after the green light was given, he invaded. If not for the information Glaspie gave him, it is unlikely that he would have invaded Kuwait.
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And what was the nature of that 'dispute'?
What a joke. [/b][/quote]
What difference does it make?
The point is that he was told to do whatever, and when Glaspie got back to America, she was quoted as saying; "I didn't think he would take all of it"; - which suggests that he was given approval by her (a representative of the U.S. government) to take at least "some" of Kuwait.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/iraq/gulf_war.html
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might say that it created a nice little pretext for Bush senior to increase American presence in the middle east.
