[Casloy]

And here is what really happened. Amb GLaspie did have a meeting with Saddam 8 days before the invasion. She never said any of the things mentioned in this transcript. She listened and that was about all. The released transcripts were a total fabrication by the Iraqis. She testified to this before the Senate. Terek Aziz later admitted she was telling the truth, that in fact all she did was listen. So, we are still debating Iraqi propoganda as truth.

[RonHolzwarth]

"So, we are still debating Iraqi propaganda as truth."

What? Arabs lie?

Surely you joust?

s/

[Pan_Yan]

When she appeared before House and Senate panels last March, the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, persuaded their members that she had talked tough to Saddam Hussein in the days before he invaded Kuwait. "I hope my credibility is at least as great as Saddam Hussein's," she told the Senators then. Contradicting the Iraqi leader's derisive account, she insisted that she had firmly warned him that the U.S. would not tolerate the use of force against Kuwait.

Not so, say Senators who have now seen the cables she sent back to the State Department in those critical days. Instead of a spirited defense of U.S. interests, Senators found waffling and appeasement. "No place does [Glaspie] report clearly delivering the kind of warning she described in her testimony to the committee," said Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island. California Democratic Senator Alan Cranston charged that she "deliberately misled Congress about her role."

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Time, 7/22/91, Vol. 138 Issue 3, p44, 1p