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[dreamnightwind]

516. Thanks

Informative as always. I still have a couple of boxes of old newspaper articles on the arming of Iraq, BNL, BCCI, etc., for some reason I thought it was important to try to document that, back before the internet made everything so much more accessible. A fool's errand, I suppose, thankfully there are people like you who have an actual handle on much of this information, I get overwhelmed by it though I try to understand and keep up when I can find the time.

I still view that first Gulf War as a trap-play, we signalled to Sadaam that we would look the other way, apparently (though I've never seen conclusive prrof, but recall the Kuwaiti ambassador fainting when presented some rev ealing document by the Iraqis) we had a back-end agreement with Kuwait that they need not worry about Sadaam invading, we would intervene and send him away. IIRC we sent the signal to Iraq that we'd look the other way via 3 different diplomatic channels (Glaspie, and I forget the others unfortunately but somewhere I have it documented). When Iraq invaded, "gotcha!"

I also recall a claim made by a French reporter that he confronted Glaspie after the fact with this accusation, and she replied "we didn't think he would take all of it" as the official excuse for the whole war-enabling diplomatic fiasco. Glaspie was one of those spooks who always seemed to show up in a place just before something really bad went down.

Interested to hear your thoughts on this if you have any, I akways believed that version of events though I never felt the evidence to support it was air-tight.