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To: tejek who wrote (495280)	7/15/2009 12:26:52 AM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574856

He went after Kuwait because he thought he had Bush I's approval to do so. Kuwait was as much protected by the US as was SA.....because both were repositories of what we love.....oil. Someone in the Bush administration gave Saddam the go ahead to attack. And then Bush I revoked it. Saddam didn't see it coming and got his ass in a sling. End of story. There was no "approval" by the Bush administration. As usual, you haven't a clue what you're talking about. April Glaspie confronted Saddam and Aziz at the time with pointed questions about why he was building up troops on the Kuwaiti border. They were told "We have no opinion on your Arab conflicts". NOBODY WHO IS AWARE OF THE FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD HAVE CONSTRUED THIS TO MEAN WE WOULD STAND IDLY BY WHILE SADDAM TOOK KUWAIT. Aziz, himself, has stated that they were not confused and had no misunderstanding about how the US would react and he clearly stated that they received no "mixed signals". You are, as usual, quoting the liberal line. But you don't know WTF you're talking about.