EDITORIAL: The walk-back : vimarsana.com
EDITORIAL: The walk-back
For years, it seems, April Glaspie was blamed for green-lighting Iraq's invasion of Kuwait to spark the First Gulf War. She was the United States ambassador to Baghdad in the 1980s and into that war-torn year of 1990. In a meeting with Saddam Hussein, she apparently told him as he massed troops on the Kuwait border that the U.S. would have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts. She may have been talking about an oil dispute, and who knows what gets lost in translation. But "Frontline" on PBS once interviewed Tariq Aziz, Iraq's foreign minister under Saddam Hussein, and they asked him about that meeting of August, 1990:
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