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13. You mean what SoS James Baker told April Glaspie to say to Saddam?

Reply to mopinko (Reply #12)

Thu Apr 6, 2017, 12:03 PM

Apr 2017

"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts," the transcript reports Glaspie saying, "such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary [of State James] Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction ... that Kuwait is not associated with America."

http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/1999/0527/p23s3.html

Yeah, if you don't learn from history, you're damned to repeat it. Sadly, Tillerson doesn't even know that he doesn't know. He is a rich, arrogant oil man who thinks he knows everything he needs to know.

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You mean what SoS James Baker told April Glaspie to say to Saddam? SunSeeker Apr 2017 #13

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