[Malesherbes]

I love tough women. Margaret Thatcher is my hero (heroine), but where do we find these idiots we keep sending out as ambassadors. It was some dumb broad American ambassatrix who told Sadaam that it would be cool to invade Kuwait. Now we get this one.

[dsc]

"where do we find these idiots we keep sending out as ambassadors"

Interview with the State Department some time. Everything will become clear.

That organization is rotten from the top down. You can't expect incompetent scumbags to hire anyone but another incompetent scumbag.

[Enterprise]

Our Government is infested with these twits at all levels. We're doomed I tell you, DOOMED!

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

When asked why he would approve sending a woman to be the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan despite the obvious cultural and religious obstacles to her effectiveness in such a place, former Secretary of State Colin Powell responded: "That was a damn woman? You sure as hell could have fooled me!"

[BillF]

It was some dumb broad American ambassatrix who told Sadaam that it would be cool to invade Kuwait.

Left-wing, old media, Saddam disinformation at work.

Unless she has a very good explanation, Nancy Powell, the diplomat discussed in the posted article did a terrible job. However, please don't generalize from that situation based on disinformation.

In the earlier matter, April Glaspie was the diplomat who discussed Kuwait with Saddam Hussein. At a meeting with Saddam shortly before the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Glaspie is said by the left (and many of their willing accomplices in the old media) to have given Saddam the green light to invade Kuwait. Their evidence is a transcript of the meeting as released by Saddam Hussein and having Glasbie state that the U.S. did NOT take a stand on intra-Arab border disputes.

Do you think that Saddam might heave released an incomplete or false transcript for propaganda purposes? At any rate, Glaspie claims that her statement and discussions with Saddam included the qualification that intra-Arab disputes were to be settled peacefully.

The left and many of the old media choose to believe Saddam over the American diplomat. I hope that you would be reluctant to believe Saddam's propaganda, repeated and amplified by the left and their willing accomplices in the media, over the U.S. diplomat.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Get your facts straight. April Glaspie never told Saddam he could invade Kuwait. She didn't say anything and he got the impression it was okay. Still no excuse on her part, she was inept to say the least.

[cherokee1]

Your're talking about April Glasby---the pair put a whole new meaning on "ïncompetent boobs" This level of obstinate stupidity strains my vocabulary and probly requires a whole new level of FELONY CONVICTION.

[expatguy]

...but where do we find these idiots we keep sending out as ambassadors. It was some dumb broad American ambassatrix who told Sadaam that it would be cool to invade Kuwait. Now we get this one.

It is called political correctness.