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Way off topic, but it has do to with rednecks
On Feb 29, 3:38 am, Gig 601XL Builder
wrote: WingFlaps wrote: Sounds a bit like the Iraq that existed before the US told Saddam it was OK to bring Kuwait back into greater Iraq doncha think? Cheers Bull$hit myth. 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". Yes that's about the core of the problem but this quote is not what was actually said but rather the carefully spun recollections of a (failed) diplomat. Despite this seeming indifference to the rising tension between the corrupt Kuwait and Iraq, in June 1990 General Norman Schwarzkopf was conducting sophisticated war games pitting thousands of U.S. troops against Iraqi armored divisions. Some say that the US wanted the war as an excuse to bring the Arab states into line -I doubt we will ever know the real truth. My point was that before Iraq was destroyed, Iraq was a modern, secular state, with most advanced status of women in the region, non- sectarian Universities and extensive religious freedoms, high rates of economic growth, and some of the highest standards of living, health and literacy rates in the Arab world. Free speech was allowed, as long as it was not directed against the regime. Cheers |
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