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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (156558)12/20/2002 4:55:20 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1581909
 
Bush Sr wasn't protecting SA; he was using SA as staging area to attack Kuwait.

He was doing both. There was some concern that Iraq would roll on to Saudi or at least try to control Saudi through threat and intimidation. The second was much more likely but the threat of the first could not be 100% ignored, esp, once the US intervened to free Kuwait, and even the 2nd is something that we couldn't really allow.

Tim
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