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To: tsigprofit who wrote (4319)11/3/2003 6:54:44 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 20773
 
tsigprofit,

Re: didn't Ms. Gilespie (sp?) a Bush representative in 1990 - give Saddam the impression that Kuwait was none of the US's affair -

April Glaspie was U.S. Ambassador to Iraq in 1990. Here's more info on the infamous meeting between Saddam Hussein and Glaspie where he requested the agreement of the U.S. for Iraq to punish Kuwait for 1) stealing Iraqi oil by slant drilling into the Rumailia oil field and 2) crippling the Iraqi economic recovery by overproducing crude oil and thus crushing prices.

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The most damning evidence of American betrayal of Iraq is this quote from Glaspie:

"But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait."

The U.S. has never denied the accuracy of this transcript.

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This meeting occurred on July 25, 1990. During that same week, Margaret Tutwiler, U.S. UN Ambassodor at the time, made essentially the same statement in New York. And a spokesperson for the State Department made a similar statement at the end of July.

The Bush 41 Administration sent Saddam Hussein a perfectly clear signal that he was "good to go" with his plan to attack Kuwait. The U.S. government knew about the plan, because Hussein sought, and received, U.S. approval for his plan.

Bush 41 snookered Saddam Hussein. He became the victim of U.S. treachery.
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