Saddam Apologizes for Invasion of Kuwait

AP / Yahoo ^ | 12/07/02

[Caipirabob]

"We apologize to God..."

Mass murder of Kuwaiti civilians.

"...about any act that has angered him in the past"

Iraqi rape gangs loose in Kuwait.

"...and that was held against us"

The sacking of Kuwait and all it's riches.

"...and we apologize to you (the Kuwaitis) on the same basis."

The uncounted thousands of innocents still dead or missing to this day.

...

Yep, that outta do it. Things are as good as new!

[EternalVigilance]

Hey! He's showing remorse. That is all a liberal or one of the UN lefty's need to call off the whole thing. Hans now has an excuse to pull out the inspectors. Sadam is so remorseful, he should go free.

I wonder if he bit his lower lip... ;-)

[xm177e2]

President Saddam Hussein on Saturday apologized to the Kuwaiti people for his invasion of their tiny country in 1990, saying he was not speaking from weakness but a desire to set the record straight.

Yeah, right. Like the Arabs are going to believe that.

[dighton]

Have you seen any Republican Guards surrendering outside your house lately?

Of course. I'm in Tulare County, CA, Iraq's 948th province.

[The Great Satan]

Saddam was just wrestlin' with Kuwait. He feels like Kuwait was abusing him. Sometimes, he dreamed about blowing up the World Trade Center. But he'll take a lie detector, so long as it's "true blue." What about Saddam's "Circle of Benevolence"? If the anthrax does not flit, you must acquit. And he wouldn't be caught dead wearing them ugly ass Bruno Magli shoes.

[Rocko]

I've noticed dems think Saddam was right to invade kuwait (won't say where I saw this, but you can guess).

What happened to their "no blood for oil" argument?

[EternalVigilance]

I made up my own mind.

So, you think what Iraq did was ok?...or, if it wasn't ok, at the very least it was our fault, right? Sheesh..

What the heck is your point? Are you attempting to absolve Saddam Hussein of guilt in this matter?

[Demidog]

So, you think what Iraq did was ok?...

I think that it was none of our business in the first place.

[VW_Mafia_Audi]

"He also urged Kuwaitis to join Iraq's struggle against any occupation armies."-from FoxNews.com

I think he(Sadaam) might be trying to rally support from Kuwait to drive away coalition forces from disarming Iraq and getting rid of him.
I'm afraid that the Kuwaitis might be stupid enough to fall for it. I sure hope not.

[McGavin999]

Kuwait should be showing documentaries of the Iraqui invasion, and the tortures that resulted, non-stop on Kuwaiti TV over the next couple of weeks. There is a whole generation of young Kuwaitis who have no real idea of what went on.

[dighton]

Mass murder of Kuwaiti civilians.

Exposure to violence on American satellite broadcasts.

Iraqi rape gangs loose in Kuwait.

Exposure to sex on American satellite broadcasts.

The uncounted thousands of innocents still dead or missing to this day.

Faulty American software on American-built computers.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Reported by whom-Peter Jennings? I guess I am too old and senile to remember.

[swheats]

An apology. It only took 12 years. He sounds like the kid who knows he's going to the woodshed and trying to lighten the blows. Too little too late. This is not about Kuwait.

[bigaln2]

Where is Coffee (sic?) Annan these days??

Well, this Wednesday, he's giving an interactive lecture to readers/listeners/watchers on the BBC Website.

Here's a post about it on here.

[VW_Mafia_Audi]

I agree. Young people are easily swayed from the truth, and man such as Sadaam Hussein could easily do it.
Just look at what happened in Somalia. Many of his followers were adults. But they listened to him nonetheless.

[EternalVigilance]

I think that it was none of our business in the first place.

So if a murdering rapist invades your neighbor's house, killing him and his family, you and the community have no moral obligation to them or other future victims...gotcha.

[EternalVigilance]

Kuwait should be showing documentaries of the Iraqui invasion, and the tortures that resulted, non-stop on Kuwaiti TV over the next couple of weeks. There is a whole generation of young Kuwaitis who have no real idea of what went on.

Obviously there are some Americans who could use a good dose of that medicine as well.

[VOA]

At the time, he said, American troops were carrying out maneuvers with Kuwaiti forces, threatening Iraq.

I guess Saddam forgot that he decided to invade Kuwait after USA Ambassador
(I think she was Ambassador) April Glassby (sp?) told Saddam that any disputes
between Kuwait and Iraq were of no concern to the USA.

Next thing you know...Saddam invades Kuwait.

LOL! I guess Saddam must be a Democrat! He can't keep his stories straight because
he's always lying!

[rabidralph]

Our own state department virtually invited Saddam to invade. Perhaps you don't remember.

Well, the ambassador, some lady named April something, said in a speech that it wasn't in America's interests to care what Iraq did. Not exactly a free pass to invade, but the media made it sound like America would have no response whatsoever if Iraq invaded. I think it was a poor choice of words from that ambassador in that she didn't deliver a more strongly worded admonition to Iraq. But, it was Iraq that went ahead, we didn't put a gun to their heads and force them to invade. Anybody else remember more clearly how this thing unfolded?

[Col Sanders]

Her name was April Glaspie, and she was the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq.

Eight days prior to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, she purportedly participated in a meeting with Saddam Hussein, and advised him (among other things):

"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960's that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America."

Approximately a month after the Iraqi invasion, British journalists obtained tapes and transcripts of this meeting and confronted her in the street in front of the US embassy in Baghdad asking her if the meeting took place, and if so, were the transcripts correct, and wanting to know why she said what she did, thus prompting the invasion.

Her only reply was:

"Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait."

LOLOLOL

I read this in Reader's Digest around October of 1990, and it still makes me giggle today...nobody thought he would take ALL of it...LOL

However, you must remember that all of this happened almost thirteen years ago.  Lots of history can be re-written in thirteen years.

Hell, HBO is even reviving the old and much-debunked "Iraqi soldiers threw Kuwaiti babies out of incubators" story for a special called "Live from Baghdad": http://www.fair.org/activism/hbo-gulf-hoax.html

Who said it?  "In wartime, the Truth is so precious that it should always be surrounded by a bodyguard of Lies."

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Col Sanders