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Where are the endorsements by then Pres. Bush Sr. for Iraqi military members to condone the dismemberment and torture of little children, infants, minorities, and women, particularly pregnant ones...

Y-A-W-N!!!

Also, if this is true, then where was all the outrage in the then media as a result of the Cain raised by the Iraqi's and Sad-damn Hussein for getting "double crossed" by Bush.

This notion is as silly as that of Kerry being anything other than a fool.

Congress seemed to accept Glaspie's claim that she dealt firmly with Saddam, and that served both her interests and Baker's. No one in the administration was eager to admit, on the record, that prewar U.S. policy toward Iraq was tinged with appeasement in hopes of making Saddam more cooperative. "We virtually gave him the green light [to attack Kuwait]," said a senior U.S. diplomat in the Middle East. "If I had been sitting where he was sitting and getting the signals he was getting from Washington and elsewhere at the time, I would probably also have gambled on the invasion of Kuwait." So far, the State Department refuses to publish Glaspie's cable. The administration deliberately muzzled her as the gulf crisis unfolded, a Bush aide conceded, in order to cut off discussion of how Washington had handled Saddam. "It would have highlighted how cozy we were trying to be with him," he said.

Could the invasion have been prevented by a stern lecture on July 25? Not from a schoolmarmish ambassador, and probably not from anyone. Even if Glaspie had adopted a tougher tone, it would not have made any difference. Except to her career. Although Glaspie may have salvaged her reputation, she herself is stuck in bureaucratic limbo. Her successor in Baghdad has already been selected, and so far no new job has been announced for her. She is an expert on the Arabs, and speaks their language "like a nightingale," says one of her friends. She was the first American woman to become ambassador to an Arab country and was highly regarded by her professional peers. But Washington's judgments often put style ahead of substance, and April Glaspie is unlikely to win another high-profile Arab embassy.

Source: Newsweek, 4/1/91, Vol. 117 Issue 13, p17, 1p

I don't see how this means we gave permission for torture, etc. It just raises the question of how competent our policy was with regards to Iraq prior to the Kuwait invasion.

I expected more factual data from FR than this. If this story is such BS, then FR should be full of links and posts refuting it with facts. So far I haven't gotten any.