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To: jbe who wrote (65535)	12/6/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Joan, just a couple comments to add to your points on the Gulf War. IMO, backing off after all those comparisons of Saddam Hussein with Adolf Hitler looked pretty darned odd. I don't think that was quite as odd as the old "the Iraqi people should rise up against Saddam!" postwar line, with the unspoken "not those people!" amendment when the Kurds and Shiites took the exhortation a little too seriously. The Kurds should have known better, anyway, having been sold down the river by the U.S. on previous occasions. The other problem with the Gulf war is that it may well have been easily avoided if anybody had been on the ball policy wise. But the U.S. was so used to cozying up to Iraq from the Iraq-Iran war, the signals sent on Kuwait were very mixed. Poor April Glaspie, hung out to dry afterwards by James Baker, comes to mind. And why were we so cozy with the invader Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war? That takes us back to Iran-contra, the less said there the better, of course. Some (Israel for sure) would argue that Iraq was enough of a threat that it was good they invaded Kuwait and got crushed. I very much doubt the Bush State Department was capable of that level of intrigue, though. Cheers, Dan.

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