Is the US State Department still keeping April Glaspie under wraps?

[Clara T]

Is the US State Department still keeping April Glaspie under wraps?

By Kaleem Omar

It is now more than fifteen years since that fateful meeting on July 25, 1990 between then-US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie and President Saddam Hussein that the Iraqi leader interpreted as a green light from Washington for his invasion of Kuwait eight days later.

The US State Department, which is said to have placed a gag order on Glaspie in August 1990 prohibiting her from talking to the media about what had transpired at that meeting, is apparently still keeping her under wraps despite the fact that she retired from the American Foreign Service in 2002. .

US Ambassador Glaspie:

"I have direct instructions from President Bush to improve our relations with Iraq. We have considerable sympathy for your quest for higher oil prices, the immediate cause of your confrontation with Kuwait. (pause) As you know, I have lived here for years and admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country (after the Iran-Iraq war). We know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. (pause) 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?"

President 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 one more brief chance. (pause) When we (the Iraqis) meet (with the Kuwaitis) and we see 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."

US Ambassador Glaspie:

"What solution would be acceptable?"

More...http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2005-daily/25-12-2005/world/w2.htm

[TomInTib]

1. This should be required reading. I have seen a video of this

particular meeting.
Hussein was set up like a bowling pin and never saw it coming.
Classic Baker/Bush.

James A Baker III has to be one of the most dangerous men on the planet. He has pulled poppy's strings from the early days.

[Cults4Bush]

2. Incubator story false, girl who told it not in Kuwait but briefed by

the same PR firm that bushco was using. Satelite photos of Iraqs army amassed alongside Saudi border were faked! And then when Glaspie comes back some few short weeks later and says "we didnt think he'd take all of Kuwait", you kinda start getting the proper picture. Kuwait was reviled across the globe for manipulating monetary values with incredibly huge sums of cash, Kuwait was cross drilling under the border into Iraqs duly owned reserves, Kuwait has a caste system that would make you think the entire country was Camelot and the people of the world merely her peasants.

Part of the deal with the Gulf War was we got to build our super base in Saudi Arabia! Yay! Superbases so we can have better reaction times in the ME with our military. Just like we are doing in Iraq now (only with like 9-14 of them). Also was one of Osamas top reasons for strinking out at the US all those years, supposedly. Wonder if we'll get 9-14 new Osamas as we pig rape Iraq?

...and known of that is conspiracy theory, it is fact!

[peacetalksforall]

3. Funny Baker and the Gang didn't consider imperializing Kuwait - then

we could have had one grand sized military base.

There is a war going on just over our heads and it is a war of secrecy and manipulation by earth people and earth resource vipers = where we and our counterparts in other countries are the victims.