But it was OK for Saddam to invade Kuwait?
In 1990 Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie told Saddam this:
"...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 1960s. 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 should have stuck to that.
Did Ms. Glaspie KNOW Saddam was about to INVADE KUWAIT???
NO!
What comes shining through is that the
Iraqi leader never made clear that he was thinking of annexing the emirate as Iraqs 19th province. Notorious though he was for his bloodcurdling and exaggerated threats, for once he was not threatening enough.
Everybody suspected he was conducting a heavy-handed diplomatic offensive to squeeze concessions, financial and possibly territorial, out of the Kuwaitis.
Almost nobody predicted a full-scale invasion and occupation of Kuwait, in large part because this was an amazingly foolish move by Saddam, bound to provoke a backlash far beyond Iraqs power to resist.
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NOW prove to ME that Glaspie TOLD Saddam YOU hAVE A GREEN LIGHT FROM Bush 41 to invade Kuwait?
Prove it to me with substantiation supporting sources AS I"VE done or shut the f...k UP!