[A-List] Imperialist Hubris,Treachery, Treason and Blowbacks

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IMPERIAL[IST] HUBRIS, TREACHERY, TREASON AND BLOWBACKS: CASE STUDIES

THE BUSH-WHACKING OF IRAQ:

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW/EXCHANGE BETWEEN U.S. AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ APRIL
GLASPIE AND SADDAM HUSSEIN JULY 25, 1990 (EIGHT DAYS BEFORE THE IRAQI
INVASION OF KUWAIT)

GLASPIE: "I have direct instructions from President Bush to improve our
relations with Iraq. We have considerable sympathy with your quest for
higher oil prices, the immediate cause of your confrontation with Kuwait.
As you know, I have lived here for years and admire your extraordinary
efforts to rebuild your country. We know you need funds. We understand
that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild
your country. We can see that you have deployed massive numbers of troops
in the south. Normally that would be none of our business, but when this
happens in the context of your other threats against Kuwait, then it would
be reasonable for us to be concerned. For this reason, I have received an
instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship not confrontation
regarding your intentions: Why are your troops massed so very close to
Kuwait's borders?"

SADDAM HUSSEIN: "As you know, for years now I have made every effort to
reach a settlement on our dispute with Kuwait. There is to be a meeting in
two days: I am prepared to give negotiations only this one more brief
chance. When we [the Iraqis] meet [with the Kuwaitis] and we see that there
is hope, then nothing will happen. But if we are unable to find a solution,
then it will be natural that Iraq will not accept death."

GLASPIE: "What solutions would be acceptable?"

SADDAM HUSSEIN: "If we could keep the whole of the Shatt al Arab, our
strategic goal in our war with Iran, we will make concessions [to the
Kuwaitis]. But if we are forced to choose between keeping half of the Shatt
and the whole of Iraq [i.e. including Kuwait], then we will give up all of
the Shatt to defend our claims on Kuwait to keep the whole of Iraq in the
shape we wish it to be. What is the United States' opinion on this?"

GLASPIE (Pause, then she speaks very carefully): " 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 this instruction, first
given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with
America."

SADDAM HUSSEIN: Smiles.

Postscript: On September 2, 1990, one month after Saddam's invasion of
Kuwait, British journalists obtained a tape and transcript of the above
Hussein-Glaspie meeting. Astounded, they confronted Ms. Glaspie:

JOURNALIST 1 (Holding the transcripts up) "Are the transcripts correct
Madam Ambassador? (Glaspie did not respond)

JOURNALIST 2: "You knew Saddam was going to invade [Kuwait], but you didn't
warn him not to. You didn't tell him America would defend Kuwait. You told
him the opposite that America was not associated with Kuwait."

JOURNALIST 1: "You encouraged this aggression--his invasion. What were you
thinking?"

GLASPIE: "Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis
were going to take ALL (emphasis added) of Kuwait."

JOURNALIST 1: "You thought he was just going to take SOME (emphasis added)
of it? But, how could you? Saddam told you that, if negotiations failed, he
would give up his Iran [Shatt al Arab waterway] goal for the [quoting the
transcript] ' whole of Iraq, in the shape we wish it to be.' You know that
includes Kuwait, which the Iraqis have always viewed as an historic part of
their country." [Ambassador Glaspie said nothing pushing past the
journalists to leave]

JOURNALIST 1: "America green-lighted the invasion. At a minimum, you admit
signalling Saddam that some aggression was okay that the U.S. would not
oppose a grab of al-Rumeilah oil field, the disputed border strip and the
gulf islands, territories claimed by Iraq?" [Again, Glaspie said nothing as
the limousine door slammed and the limo drove off].

Quoted in: "The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed" by
Russell S. Bown, America West Publishers, Carson City, NV, 1991, pp 145-148

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