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Defense bleatings?
Washington Times ^
| Friday, December 19, 2003
| By Arnaud de Borchgrave
Posted on 12/18/2003 10:04:25 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:11:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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An article of faith among most Arab policymakers is that the U.S. gave Saddam Hussein a yellow-to-green light to invade Kuwait in 1990. Some of them will concede, albeit off the record, the yellow light was probably inadvertent and a reflection of inept diplomacy. Others state flatly, also off the record, that it had switched from yellow to green and that it was deliberate.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arnauddeborchgrave; desertshield; desertstorm; iraq; iraqijustice; viceisclosed
To: JohnHuang2
Who cares really?
To: Blacksheep
Lefties.
i.e. No one with a brain.
To: Blacksheep
Indeed ... I dont recall any 'green light' to go off and kill and murder Kurds by the thousands, or to torture anyone who said a bad word about Saddam or who got 'in the way' ....
Iraqis will try him for murder and Saddam will be getting either 400,000 consecutive life sentences for it, or they will simply execute him and let the proprieters of hell take care of his accomodations for that lengthy sentence.
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12/18/2003 10:31:25 PM PST
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WOSG
(The only thing that will defeat us is defeatism itself)
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