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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (9059)	2/16/2003 8:46:44 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 25898

<People in the West misread Saddam in 1990.> Glasspie?? and what is this: < They mis-interpreted his problem with Kuwait as a border dispute. Many people are still mis-interpreting his intentions and capacity for violence.> Didn't Glasspie report back to USA and Bush Sr?? Or have USA stepped into some orthgonal space since those days??

To: Brumar89 who wrote (9059)	2/17/2003 11:22:18 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

>>People in the West misread Saddam in 1990. They mis-interpreted his problem with Kuwait as a border dispute.<< Brumar, our ambassador in Iraq did not misread Saddam's true intentions in 1990. Long in advance of his invasion of Kuwait, the situation was known to the embassy and our ambassador communicated with Washington, advising that our response should be tough and uncompromising, letting Saddam know in no uncertain terms what would happen if he tried to invade Kuwait. This issue was discussed with then President Bush, who was advised by Senator Dole to "go easy" on the Iraqis since they buy about $4 billion in wheat from Kansas. Our ambassador was then told to go easy, stating to Saddam that the U.S. would not get involved in domestic matters. Somewhat later, the report of our ambassador's discussions with Saddam was made public, whereupon President Bush, whose orders resulted in that "go easy" policy, fired our ambassador. The whole Gulf War, including the current aftermath, is the fault of a President who didn't know anything about conducting foreign policy, least of all, to take advise from one of our few ambassadors who was fluent in Arabic and a recognized Middle East scholar. I could go on about how little the Bush family knew or cared about foreign policy, but I think you get the point. Art