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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (12704)	4/12/2003 7:10:37 PM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

>>The Saddam-U.S. intelligence alliance of convenience came to an end at 2 a.m. Aug. 2, 1990, when 100,000 Iraqi troops, backed by 300 tanks, invaded its neighbor, Kuwait. America's one-time ally had become its bitterest enemy.<< Not sure about that point. Some speculation pointed out that at the time, US tacitly approved Saddam's intention of Kuwait invasion in 1990(which the US government denied, of course), so US could find a "reason" to send troops to Middle East to destroy Israel's main enemy in the region once saddam invade Kuwait. totse.com I don't know much about Iraq situation before 1990 Gulf war. But base on the facts that US government did not give clear warning to Saddam when he massed troops along Kuwait boarder in 1990 and US/Israel had planned to eliminate Saddam long time ago. I wouldn't be totally surprised if the above speculation was true.