how he made preparations to aid the insurgency while the US was building up to an invasion (but obviously
its been more successful than Hitler's plans along those lines). Also, I remember reading a long time ago
that Saddam had quietly informed the White House before the Kuwait invasion, and taken the official
silence as tacit consent. Any truth to this?
~Maru
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Why would they be that? If Michael Dukakis had been
President of the United States in 1990 - hardly an
unlikely outcome - Saddam Hussein would be ruling
Kuwait, along with Iraq, right now. The overwhelming
majority of Democratic Senators voted against the war.
The Democratic Party had majorities in both the
Senate and House of the Congress. Why was it
unreasonable to think that we would do nothing to
reverse the invasion? It was in no way clear at the
time that we were going to do something about the
invasion, and had we not, Iraq would be the most
powerful (non-Israel) country in the Middle East right
now, would have nuclear weapons (the UN reported that
Iraq was ~1 year from getting nuclear weapons in
1991), and would be a major world power. Given what
Saddam Hussein knew, forget about insane, it wasn't
even dumb. If invading Kuwait had worked, he would
have been the greatest hero in the Arab world since
Nasser.
===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com
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