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To: epicure who wrote (139399)	7/8/2004 3:20:31 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I said Glaspie telegraphed the wrong message. I said Saddam was naive but logical. I said he wrongly interpreted it- but I don't think his interpretation has anything to do with mental illness. I thought this was what we were discussing. How could she have intentionally telegraphed a wrong message if she did not know the invasion was planned? You still haven't gotten over that hurdle. But in point of fact, the transcript and the article make it clear that the gist of the discussion was her pleasure with the fact that Mubarak and Kibli, head of the Arab League, were trying to mediate the dispute, and that a summit was planned in Baghdad. How is that consistent with giving him a green light, even erroneously? And you still haven't responded to the question of why in the name of everything that is logical, would Saddam blindly accept such a message, even if wrong, if planting his troops next door to Saudi Arabia was guaranteed to bring down the military might of the West upon him?