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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Oct 19 2004, 02:52 AM
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@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.
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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.
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What difference does it make?
There was no dispute. That's what difference it makes.
Jesus.
And you are stretching the events and you know damn well you are.
Hilarious.