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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (111115)	10/24/2000 11:07:16 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Glenn, >> Saddam hussein seems to have no trouble buying alcohol and cigarettes. Medical supplies are not available from other countries? Let's get real here. Cigaretts and whiskey are available from anywhere. Medical drugs and istruments are not. Practically any effective drug or vaccine has to be purchased from the US or Europe, because they are not made anywhere else. Also they are dated items, and need special handling and temperature control. Generally most recent drugs are single source and do not have even generic equivalents. >> Please tell me, I really do not know, why did Iraq invade Kuwait? All the evidence is that it was a plan discussed between Saddam Hussein and the US ambassador to Iraq at the time. Her name is April Gillespie. She testified before the US Senate, but that testimony so far has not been released. CNN showed a video (provided by Iraq) where Saddam Hussein discussed with the US ambassador complaints that Iraq had about Kuwait stealing oil from wells within Iraq. She answered "Border disputes are something to be resolved between the Arab states themselves, and the US had no intention of interfering with that". So that's the famous "green light" that Iraq claims the US gave it to invade Kuwait.