From: pssres12@ucs.usl.edu (Vignes Gerard M)
Subject: Re: How Much Did The U.S. Get?
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:44:24 GMT

In article <3755@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> aaldoubo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Anisa Alnoor Aldoubosh) writes:
>Let's see ... V..i..g..n..e..s

	Try growing up yourself   ...A..n..i..s..a    :-)

>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?

	We were not asked to intervene until after the invasion.

	Are you suggesting we should have made a pre-emptive strike?
	perhaps with nuclear missiles?

	Are you condoning this kind of behavior in general
	or just in cases where your own interests are at stake?

>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?

	We are not going to "play God" in the Mideast,
	and I doubt that is what you really want us to do.

	What you really want is to embarrass Americans
	and make them feel guilty for the Gulf War.

	We did not continue the war, AT OUR ARABIAN ALLIES BEHEST,
	since it initially appeared that Iraq's losses
	were much worse than they really were.

	You castigate us when we ignore Arab wishes
	and again, doubly so, when we respect them.

>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?

	America went into the Gulf War to free Kuwait!

	Your insinuation that it was for a profit
	is a ludicrous as the rest of your posting,
	a seminal treatise in confusion and hypocricy.

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

	Not such as you declare!  Your head seeths with them!
	Never have I heard such delusions!  The air befouled!

>I think he only has two wives - and one mistress.

	ONLY TWO WIVES!!! 
	AND ANOTHER WOMAN ON THE SIDE!!!
	NO WONDER HE GOES AROUND STARTING WARS!!!  (the poor man :-)

>Maybe we can
>examine the lifestyle of the Emir of Kuwait ... was is the count
>now?

	Is there a tabloid press in the Mideast also?

>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.

	People who are accused of being stupid or crazy
	usually have to do something crazy or stupid
	to merit such treatment.

	Your fascination with some monstrous, global evil
	has blinded you to the fact that most Americans
	just want a safe place to raise their families.

	If you are tired of being treated like an outcast,
	then stop acting like one.  Get with the program!

>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?

	We'll probably all be dead by then;
	global warming, holes in the ozone layer,
	a meteor, or something like that...

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

	ELVIS IS ALIVE IN IDAHO!!!
	THE CIA KILLED MARYLIN MONROE!!!
	MICHAEL JACKSON THE LOVE CHILD OF A UFO!!!
	etc.

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