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Originally Posted by WhizWheel
So we invaded a whole nation based on what many call a poor excuse yet when we have control of major ME oil but can't come up with an "excuse" to sell the idea of using it for ourselves to the rest of the world??? I don't buy it
We gave Saddam a "wink" to invade Kuwait????? Being that this might **** off our "friends in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia doesn't this sound a little far fetched? I mean do you have proof of this?????
No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Lets ask the families of the thousands of Kurds who were gassed if Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction. Or perhaps we can chat with the scores of Gulf War vets with Gulf War Syndrome (labeled as PTSD from the left) if chemical weapons (most definitely categorized as weapons of mass destruction) were used? Just to quell some ignorance, WMD is not just limited to NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!!!!!
So we play world police (Africa, Indonesia, S.America) in addition to Middle Eastern affairs and in the process get labeled by all the pacifist, elitist nations as playing world police. Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
From the wikipedia gulf war website:
Gulf War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
" TENSIONS WITH KUWAIT
In late July
1990, as negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait stalled, Iraq massed troops on its border with the
emirate and summoned US
ambassador April Glaspie to a meeting with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Two transcripts of that meeting have been produced, both of them controversial. In them, Saddam Hussein outlined his grievances against Kuwait, while promising that he would not invade Kuwait before one more round of negotiations. In the version published by
The New York Times on
September 23,
1990, Glaspie expressed concern over the troop buildup to Saddam Hussein:
“We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late ’60s. The instruction we had during this period was that we should express no opinion on this issue and that the issue is not associated with America.
James Baker has directed our official spokesmen to emphasize this instruction. We hope you can solve this problem using any suitable methods via [Chadli] Klibi [then
Arab League General Secretary] or via
President Mubarak. All that we hope is that these issues are solved quickly. With regard to all of this, can I ask you to see how the issue appears to us? My assessment after 25 years' service in this area is that your objective must have strong backing from your Arab brothers. I now speak of
oil. But you, Mr. President, have fought through a horrific and painful war. Frankly, we can see only that you have deployed massive troops in the south. Normally that would not be any of our business. But when this happens in the context of what you said on your national day, then when we read the details in the two letters of the Foreign Minister, then when we see the Iraqi point of view that the measures taken by the U.A.E. and Kuwait is, in the final analysis, parallel to military aggression against Iraq, then it would be reasonable for me to be concerned. And for this reason, I received an instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship — not in the spirit of confrontation — regarding your intentions. I simply describe the position of my Government. And I do not mean that the situation is a simple situation. But our concern is a simple one.
”
Some have interpreted portions of these statements, particularly the language "We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait", as signaling an American "green light" for the invasion. Although the
US State Department did not confirm (or deny) the authenticity of these transcripts, US sources say that it handled everything “by the book” (in accordance with the US' official neutrality on the Iraq-Kuwait issue) and had not signaled to Saddam Hussein any approval for defying the Arab League’s
Jeddah crisis squad, which had conducted the negotiations. Many believe that Saddam Hussein may have been influenced by the perception that the US was not interested in the issue, (as they had not minded when he ordered the invasion of Iran) for which the Glaspie transcript is merely an example, and that he may have felt so in part because of U.S. support for the
reunification of Germany, another act that he considered to be nothing more than the nullification of an artificial, internal border. Others, such as
Kenneth Pollack, believe he had no such illusion, or that he simply underestimated the extent of a US response."
Google the name April Glaspie please. Two of the first websites:
Is the US State Department still keeping April Glaspie under wraps? and
April Glaspie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And the WMD issue was not that if Iraq ever had WMD and had used them (The US and other countries sold him WMD incidentally) but whether he still had them or not after UN sanctions were made against Iraq, the first of these occuring after the end of the Persian Gulf War. At least watch the History channel please.
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