No Walt. I blame Hussein. Unlike you, who has to find a reason to blame America first, I have no problem pointing out that there are bad guys around the world who do bad things and that he is one of them. He misread her statements, and IMHO intentionally.
Who did she work for?
She was the US ambassador, Walt, and when Saddam's people came to her to ask her about an oil dispute between Iraq and Kuwait, she articulated the position that the issue was a regional one between those two countries that they needed to resolve. Saddam took resolution to mean "we conquer them and the issue is settled."
You obviously don't know what you are talking about, because the meeting where she articulated the very inept U.S. policy -- that meeting between she and Saddam himself -- is on tape.
It was goofy enough to send a woman ambassador to a middle eastern country, but she didn't have to give away the store too.
And George Bush Sr. is responsible.
Walt