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echo: barktopus
to: Gary Wiltshire
from: Phil Payne
date: 2006-03-14 15:40:10
subject: Re: Americans think civil war likely in Iraq

From: "Phil Payne" 

> 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

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