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  • Saddam Apologizes for Invasion of Kuwait

    12/07/2002 10:31:23 AM PST · by dighton · 171 replies · 465+ views
    AP / Yahoo ^ | 12/07/02
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - 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. In a speech read on national television by the Iraqi information minister, Saddam outlined the events that led to the invasion and said: "We apologize to God about any act that has angered him in the past and that was held against us, and we apologize to you (the Kuwaitis) on the same basis." He said that in 1989, he had tried...