From: anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar Mohammed)
Subject: Re: How Much Did The U.S. Get?
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:59:07 GMT

In article <3755@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> aaldoubo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Anisa Alnoor Aldoubosh) writes:
>In article <1992Sep8.225404.11224@usl.edu> pssres12@ucs.usl.edu (Vignes Gerard M) writes:
>>In article <3745@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> aaldoubo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Anisa Alnoor Aldoubosh) writes:
>>	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? 

Let's see, I've posted this all before. Anisa insists on ignoring the 
facts to back up her fantasies (not only does she ignore the facts, but
fails to provide any to back up her fantastic claims).  Well, here it 
is again.  The U.S. response to Iraqi threats before it invaded Kuwait:

Author       Gordon, Michael R
Title        U.S. Deploys Air and Sea Forces after Iraq Threatens 2 Neighbors
Source       New York Times,  Jul 25, 1990,  A, 1:1
Features     Map
Abstract     The US sent two aerial refueling planes to the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES and deployed 
             combat ships into the Persian Gulf after threats of military force by Iraq 
             against the EMIRATES and Kuwait.
Subjects     International relations; Armed forces

Author       Shenon, Philip
Title        U.S. Weighs Sanctions on Iraq over Baghdad's Oil-Dispute Tactics
Source       New York Times,  Jul 27, 1990,  A, 2:1
Abstract     The US has started a wide-ranging review of foreign policy toward Iraq and will 
             consider new economic sanctions and export controls as a result of Iraq's 
             threats against its neighbors, Kuwait and the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.  There is 
             also concern over Iraqi efforts to develop chemical weapons.
Subjects     Biological & chemical weapons; Foreign policy; International relations-US; 
             Sanctions; International trade


Title        To Avoid Crisis, America Must Stand Up to Iraqi Blackmail
Source       Atlanta Journal,  Jul 31, 1990,  A, 8:1
Abstract     An editorial states that the agreement by Kuwait and the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES to 
             reduce oil production to avert a military assault by Iraq may actually escalate 
             a crisis situation by sending Iraq's Saddam Hussein the message that he can set 
             oil prices with military threats.
Subjects     Editorials; Petroleum production




Anisa, before you start spouting off these fantasies and calling people
naive again, you'd better check the facts first.


-anwar
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