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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR
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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (8833)2/16/2003 8:36:13 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 25898
 
Last time, the Iraqi army was caught in the desert in retreat from Kuwait,

Much of the Iraqi army was deployed along Kuwait's southern border. Most of them surrendered there. Iraqi units not stationed on the Saudi front did retreat from Kuwait and were shot up pretty badly during the process. I think every Iraqi who surrendered survived the war. I wonder if Iraqis will remember that?

which it had invaded because it had been told by the U.S. earlier that the U.S. would not intervene in "domestic matters."

You don't think Saddam intended to invade till then? People in the West misread Saddam in 1990. They mis-interpreted his problem with Kuwait as a border dispute. Many people are still mis-interpreting his intentions and capacity for violence.

Saddam Hussein wanted to annex it, though his word for annexation was to arrange a mutually agreeable settlement of a border dispute.
When Ambassador April Glaspie arrived, Saddam asked her what was the United States policy or opinion concerning Kuwait.
She told him her country had no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts, "like your border disagreement with Kuwait", but the United States would never accept a settlement achieved by other than peaceful means.
That was all there was to the interview. Washington checked with other Arab leaders who agreed with the White House that Saddam was almost certainly trying to get his way by blackmail and other forms of pressure on Kuwait.
A check with British intelligence - always the most knowledgeable about Middle Eastern affairs - received the response that Saddam was undoubtedly bluffing.
Well nobody had long to wait to see that they'd all been dead wrong and poor Ambassador Glaspie was taunted for a time with the charge that she had more or less given Saddam the cue, the high sign, to do whatever he wanted.
news.bbc.co.uk
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