Reminds me of Bush I insulting Iraq by appointing April Glaspie Ambassador. Then she proceeded to mistakenly give Saddam an OK to invade Kuwait. Political correctness and the US State Department are going to be the death of us.
That was the start of this mess!
I don’t think she gave Saddam any green light... he wasn’t asking for one. In any case the culprit is most likely her underling, who met with Saddam after she had left the region.
A fellow named Joe Wilson, the last US diplomat to meet with Saddam before Saddam invaded Kuwait. That last meeting was also attended by Saddam’s Paris-based “principal arms dealer.”
Joe would later become ambassador to the backwater, Gabon. One of his wives was a French official connected to Omar Bongo; another was Valerie Plame, the so-called super doper deep cover spy “exposed” by Novak.
His business partner was Alamoudi, a very wealthy Saudi of Ethiopian lineage, IIRC, I think the guy who was hired by Qadaffi to assassinate the Saudi King with some Syrian involvement.
Joe Wilson... not that Susan Rice is mentioned here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/993146/posts
In retrospect, it might have been a better idea to have had April give Saddam to understand that he could have Kuwait as long as he promised to clean out Saudi Arabia and feed all the Wahabbis thru his wood chipper, provided of course that gas remain below $2/gallon.