From: aaldoubo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Anisa Alnoor Aldoubosh)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Re: How Much Did The U.S. Get?
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:09:50 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Denver

In article <1992Sep8.225404.11224@usl.edu> pssres12@ucs.usl.edu (Vignes Gerard M) writes:
>
>	How do you spell "paranoid fantasy"?

Let's see ... V..i..g..n..e..s

>In article <3745@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> aaldoubo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Anisa Alnoor Aldoubosh) writes:
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>>I wonder how much money and/or oil the United States received
for planning and participating in the invasion of Kuwait versus
its full-scale war against Iraq?
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>	I'm having trouble following this.

Figures ...

>	Are you saying that Iraq paid us to let them invade,
>	or that Kuwait paid us to stop them,
>	or that they took turns paying us???

Two weeks before the actual invasion, there were Iraqi troops
on the Kuwaiti border and Saddam was threatening to invade.
What happened during those two weeks?  Why didn't the U.S., if
the CIA is informed of every action in the Middle East, send a
handful of soldiers to Kuwait?  What about the night before the
invasion?  Why did the U.S. allow Iraq to invade Kuwait?  Was
it all planned?  A game, where U.S. control would be extended in
the M.E., and where *big* money is concerned?  Are we to actually
blindly believe that the powerful United States can wipe out such
a huge country as Iraq in such a short period of time and not
know where the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein is?  Or couldn't end
the reign of his dictatorship?

What about the millions of dollars that Kuwait paid to the United
States to confront the ruthless dictatorship of Saddam Hussein
only *after* the invasion - to turn U.S. sympathy and support for
destruction of Iraq - to rescue a country that itself is headed
by crooked businessmen dressed in sheep's clothing?  What about the
prices of oil after the invasion - are we to believe that this was
just over oil?  And why did the U.S. make the people of Iraq suffer
by imposing economic sanctions while the bloodthirsty Saddam was
walking the streets?

Are you and others *that* naive?  To blindly support such policies?

>>I also wonder how Saddam benefitted out of the deal - is he
allowed to remain Iraq's President for life still?
>
>	Can you imagine how much it would cost to put up his family?
>	I hear he has fifty wives and several hundred children.

I think he only has two wives - and one mistress.  Maybe we can
examine the lifestyle of the Emir of Kuwait ... was is the count
now?

>>I wonder still, when the people in the U.S. will learn of
these deep, dark secrets of the CIA ... will they blindly
support the re-election of such a dictator?
>
>	Have you been watching that "JFK" movie?

Well, this movie just clarified a few perspectives concerning
the Gulf War - the evil, corruption, and deceit of the American
people ... BTW, everyone in history who has tried to uncover
the truth has been accused of being crazy or stupid or whatever.
It also said that Hitler used to say that if you tell a lie long
enough, people will begin to believe it.

>>Reminds me of the movie, JFK, when it was said that it doesn't
matter how many lives are lost or what the sacrifices are -
as long as the business of war and corruption continues ...
if it was $80 Billion back in the 60's and 70's, what the
going rate today?
>
>	I see.  Is that your idea of a documentary?

No, I don't.  It is just a movie based on certain facts and
testimonies from certain sources.  But if it tells anything,
it is about deception and power - pure and simple - just
cleverly covered up.  I remember how it was discredited
after it came out - what is the government afraid of?  And
why won't the documents be revealed until 2025 or something
like that?

I wonder how long we will know the truth about the Iran
Contras, the Gulf War, and all the rest ....

Anisa