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   From: AFaceInTheCrowd@today.net   
      
   From  "Arnborg" , in uk.politics.misc on Sat, 21 Jun   
   2008 09:34:25 +1000 :   
      
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   >"JackieMASON"  wrote in message   
   >news:c6888cb1-7c64-4c08-a62a-37488658ad50@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...   
   >> But it's rumored that Bush has convinced Israeli officials to bomb   
   >> Iran as a proxy effort on behalf of the U.S.   
   >   
   >Maybe.   
   >   
   >The US did give permission for Saddam to attack Kuwait. They do strange   
   >things for strange reasons.   
   >   
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   "She said she was the victim of "deliberate deception on a major scale," and   
   denounced the Iraqi transcript as "a fabrication" that distorted her   
   position.... "   
      
   "In November 1992, Iraq's former deputy prime minister, Tarik Aziz, gave   
   Glaspie some vindication...."   
      
   Did the Great Satan give its OK? Who gave the translation of the trnascript?   
   Probably does not matter since you have already decided................   
      
   "Eight days before his Aug. 2, 1990, invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein met   
   with April Glaspie, then America's ambassador to Iraq. It was the last   
   high-level contact between the two countries before Iraq went to war.   
      
   GLASPIE: In March 1991, she told a Senate committee that 'we foolishly did   
   not realize [Saddam] was stupid.'   
   MARCY NIGHSWANDER/AP/FILE   
      
   " From a translation of Iraq's transcript of the meeting, released that   
   September, press and pundits concluded that Ms. Glaspie had (in effect)   
   given Saddam a green light to invade.   
      
   "We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts," the transcript reports   
   Glaspie saying, "such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary [of State   
   James] Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction ... that Kuwait is   
   not associated with America."   
      
   The Persian Gulf War began Jan. 17, 1991. But before the official end of the   
   war (April 11), Glaspie was called to testify informally before the Senate   
   Foreign Relations Committee.   
      
   She said she was the victim of "deliberate deception on a major scale," and   
   denounced the Iraqi transcript as "a fabrication" that distorted her   
   position, though it contained "a great deal" that was accurate.   
      
   The veteran diplomat awaited her next assignment, later taking a low-profile   
   job at the United Nations.   
      
   In November 1992, Iraq's former deputy prime minister, Tarik Aziz, gave   
   Glaspie some vindication. He said she had not given Iraq a green light. "She   
   just listened and made general comments," he told USA Today. "We knew the   
   United States would have a strong reaction.   
   ..."   
      
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