 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 210
Glaspie's specifically stated to Saddam: “We have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts,
like your border disagreement with Kuwait.”
800
But both before and after Saddam's meeting with
Glaspie, Saddam had observed the statements coming from several departments within George
H.W. Bush’s administration.
1.
On July 19th, Pete Williams, spokesman for Dick Cheney, downplayed a statement that was
made by both Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. They said
that the US would honor its commitment to defend Kuwait. Williams said Cheney had spoken
with “some degree of liberty.”
2.
On July 24th
, US State Department Department spokeswoman Margret Tutweiler said in
response to a question. “We do not have any defense treaties with Kuwait, and there are no
special defense or security commitment to Kuwait.”
3.
On July 31st, John Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs told Congress: “We have no defense treaty relationship with any Gulf Country. That is
clear.... We have historically avoided a position on border disputes or on internal OPEC
deliberations.”
801
Russbacher’s extensive accounts of CIA criminal actions, which he had involvement in,
have been thoroughly researched by author Rodney Stich. Stich has verified much of his
statements and detailed accounts with other CIA whistleblowers. Assuming Russbacher’s
information to be accurate, the US baited Sudam Hussein, whom had been trained by the CIA
and supplied arms by the US into attacking Kuwait. At the same time the US was planning a
retaliatory war with Iraq. Author and researcher George C. Andrews reports on the US
preparations:
A little known fact about the Gulf War is that one month before our
Declaration of War on December 15, 1990, Secretary of State James Baker,
signed the US Army Report from the 352nd Civil Affairs Command on the New
Kuwait [unclassified, and therefore available to those interested]. This report
describes in detail how extensively Kuwait will be destroyed, how the oil wells
will be set on fire, and then how it will all be rebuilt “better than before”, with
despotism (tyranny), instead of democracy, even more entrenched than it had
been before. The report includes a list of US corporations who will be assigned
the profitable task of rebuilding Kuwait and extinguishing the oil fires, as well as
the Arab names they will be operating under. [Exactly the same was done before
the ‘war’ in Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.]
802
On August 1, 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq had legitimate disputes with Kuwait which
have not been much reported on. Before the first world war, under the Ottoman Empire, Kuwait
had been a district of Iraq. Kuwait became independent in 1961 under a British proclamation but
the borders in the featureless desert were never well defined and Iraq never accepted Kuwait as a
legitimate and independent State. The Rumalia oil field which bordered Kuwait was claimed
entirely by Iraq.
While Iraq was engaged in the Iran-Iraq war, Kuwait stole an estimated $2.4 billion in oil
 |