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...Saddam, but this time it was much more difficult to get to the Iraqi capital because of the air war. I flew to Tehran on Feb. 11, then drove to the Iraqi border, where I was met by Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Saad al-Feisal and Soviet Ambassador Viktor Posuvalyuk. We drove at high speed toward Baghdad. From time to time the cars, which traveled in a tight convoy, switched on their headlights in order to make out the road in the pitch dark...
Even at the edge of the abyss, U.S. policy toward Iraq ran headlong into contradiction with itself. On July 25, 1990, as Iraqi tanks and troops were massing along the border of Kuwait, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad that the U.S. had little to say about Arab border disputes and was eager to improve relations with Iraq. That same day in Washington, anxious State Department officials urged the Pentagon to dispatch the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Independence and its battle group, then in the Indian Ocean, to the mouth of the Persian Gulf -- as a signal...
First of all, the Administration probably could have deterred Saddam from invading Kuwait in the first place if it had made its military intentions clear in the days preceding August 2. But Washington sent out conflicting signals, and the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq told Saddam that she doubted an invasion would be answered with force. Neville Chamberlain used similar tactics at Munich in 1938. As Bush has said, it's called appeasement, and it doesn't work...
...Iraq as hundreds of thousands of other Arabs have done in cities from Amman to Nouakchott. When a small band of demonstrators assembled in Cairo two weeks ago for a march on the presidential palace, bystanders watched approvingly as police broke up the protest with nightsticks. Observed Jordan's Ambassador Nabih Nimr: "Apparently the majority of Egyptians are either quiet or support Mubarak...
While those who know him say King Hussein is genuinely bitter that the U.S. attacked Iraq, his behavior is also clearly influenced by popular opinion in Jordan, which is avidly -- and almost uniformly -- pro-Saddam. Says Samuel Lewis, former U.S. ambassador to Israel: "The King is concentrating on riding his domestic tiger...