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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (40888)8/30/2002 6:47:54 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Some interesting links you should peruse before saying the US "conned" Saddam into invading Kuwait, and the diplomacy between James Baker and Tariq Azziz in the weeks before Desert Shield turned into Desert Storm:

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And this is pretty interesting reading as well:

Is it true that the Saudis were very nervous about removing Saddam or allowing any of the opposition groups to take over?

No. No, that's not true, and quite the reverse is true. Quite the reverse is true.


The Saudis wanted to go further?

That's correct. Well, they and some of our other Arab allies were interested in seeing a much more aggressive posture on the part of the United States in terms of supporting Kurds in the north and the Shia in the south. That's all I'll say about that.


Well, we've talked to the Kurds in the north and the Shia in the south. And they say yes, the Saudis wanted something to change. But what they didn't want was democracy on their border. They didn't want a parliamentary democracy in place.

I don't think that's a fair characterization. I think they were a lot more fearful of a Saddam Hussein on their border than they would be of some democracy on their border.

Frankly, since the end of the war, you've seen the beginnings of a spread of democratic tendencies in the region. You see it in Qatar. You see it in Bahrain. ... They're right there on the border of Saudi Arabia. ...

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