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This page is intended to be a running summary of the government coverups I personally know of or hear about, but it is not exhaustive. Most important at the present time is the realization that George Bush Senior's original war with Iraq was another manufactured war that was sold to the American public as something else. You thought that Saddam just up and invaded Kuwait one day, seemingly not caring what the United States thought? Apparently he did care what the United States thought, and in discussions with April Glaspie, the American ambassador to Iraq, he was told that the United States had no particular interest in Kuwait or in his historical territorial dispute with Kuwait. Here is a summary with links to sources:

April Glaspie's Invitation to Saddam to Invade Kuwait

April Glaspie was the American ambassador to Iraq at the time

Purported transcript of the pivotal discussion: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/april.html

From http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1999/05/27/p23s3.htm::
US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie
Carleton Cole

Eight days before his Aug. 2, 1990, invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein met with April Glaspie, then America's ambassador to Iraq. It was the last high-level contact between the two countries before Iraq went to war.

GLASPIE: In March 1991, she told a Senate committee that 'we foolishly did not realize [Saddam] was stupid.'

From a translation of Iraq's transcript of the meeting, released that September, press and pundits concluded that Ms. Glaspie had (in effect) given Saddam a green light to invade.

"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts," the transcript reports Glaspie saying, "such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary [of State James] Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction ... that Kuwait is not associated with America."

Later when confronted on this issue there was doubt injected with vague denials and partial admittal: "She said she was the victim of "deliberate deception on a major scale," and denounced the Iraqi transcript as "a fabrication" that distorted her position, though it contained "a great deal" that was accurate.

From http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html:
The Iraqi view in a transcript apparently between Hussein and Glaspie and the Iraq something or other Tariq Aziz. As reported in THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1990:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- On July 25,President Saddam Hussein of Iraq summoned the United States Ambassador to Baghdad, April Glaspie, to his office in the last high-level contact between the two Governments before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2. Here are excerpts from a document described by Iraqi Government officials as a transcript of the meeting, which also included the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Tariq Aziz. A copy was provided to The New York Times by ABC News, which translated from the Arabic. The State Department has declined to comment on its accuracy.

HUSSEIN: The price at one stage had dropped to $12 a barrel and a reduction in the modest Iraqi budget of $6 billion to $7 billion is a disaster.

GLASPIE: I think I understand this. I have lived here for years. I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.

I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late 60's. The instruction we had during this period was that we should express no opinion on this issue and that the issue is not associated with America. James Baker has directed our official spokesmen to emphasize this instruction. We hope you can solve this problem using any suitable methods via Klibi or via President Mubarak. All that we hope is that these issues are solved quickly. With regard to all of this, can I ask you to see how the issue appears to us?

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Now keep in mind that in the larger context of the document this is just a brief exerpt from a wide-ranging conversation in which Glaspie's purpose appears to be to extract from Hussein what his intentions are regarding Kuwait. He is somewhat vague and doesn't answer the question directly except to say that if things don't go well then there could be hostilities.

From http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7891/saddam_glaspie.html:
('the next day' was presumably July 26, 1990, seven days before Saddam invaded Kuwait)

At a Washington press conference called the next day, State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutweiler was asked by journalists:

"Has the United States sent any type of diplomatic message to the Iraqis about putting 30,000 troops on the border with Kuwait? Has there been any type of protest communicated from the United States government?"

to which she responded:
"I'm entirely unaware of any such protest."

On July 31st, two days before the Iraqi invasion, John Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern affairs, testified to Congress that the

"United States has no commitment to defend Kuwait and the U.S. has no intention of defending Kuwait if it is attacked by Iraq."

On August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein's massed troops invaded and occupied Kuwait (ironically, this was done in a method historically similar to the American anexation of Texas). One month later in Baghdad, British journalists obtained the tape and transcript of the Hussein-Glaspie meeting on July 25, 1990. In order to verify this astounding information, they attempted to confront Ms. Glaspie as she was leaving the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

(see the article for an amazing transcript, including some by Ross Perot accusing and George the First defending the 'national honour'; unfortunately some of the links on that page are no longer good)