From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:40:10 -0500, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>> I beg to differ.  Kerry opposed the first gulf war and so would have let
>> Saddam keep Kuwait, very likely emboldened to take Saudi as well.
>
> It would at least have been consistent.  America told them to take it in
> the
> first place.
>
> "U.S. Ambassador Glaspie - We have no opinion on your Arab - Arab
> conflicts,
> such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has
> directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the
> 1960's,
> that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America. (Saddam smiles)"
>
> http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/april.html
>
> The web never forgets.
>
>

What she said was NOT an invitation to invade.  The "dispute" in
question was manifold, especially the alleged Kuwaiti practice of drilling
diagonally into Iraqi oil fields.  As for "consistent," who else
allegedly said such a thing (who was in the administration)?

--
Gary Wiltshire

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