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...just war, President Bush launched one against Saddam. The Iraqi dictator confirmed the worst that Bush had said of him by raining down ballistic missiles on the civilian population of Israel, a nation totally uninvolved in the dispute over Kuwait -- and one with which Saddam's Foreign Minister, Tariq Aziz, had said only a week earlier Iraq has "no bilateral dispute...
...basic decisions that led to war were probably taken by Bush and Saddam within a few days of Iraq's seizure of Kuwait last Aug. 2. Only after 6 1/2 hours of stonewalling by Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz when he met U.S. Secretary of State James Baker in Geneva on Jan. 9, however, did the White House finally give up hope of inducing Saddam to disgorge Kuwait by any means short of war. But as late as Tuesday, Jan. 15, the day the United Nations Security Council had fixed back in November as the deadline for Iraq...
...ally to get out of Kuwait or else. Bush had no objection, so Gorbachev composed a letter that the Soviet ambassador to Baghdad was instructed to deliver to Saddam immediately. Too late. The ambassador could not find the Iraqi President and had to hand the letter to Foreign Minister Aziz -- in a bunker, after the attack had begun...
However historians eventually judge the rush of events in the Persian Gulf, few will fairly conclude that what occurred was a failure to communicate. For months, George Bush has agonized that Saddam Hussein has not got the message. Tariq Aziz buried that illusion last week in Geneva. That was no dialogue of the deaf, as some have labeled it. Clarity reigned. James Baker detailed the horror that awaits Iraq if peace dies. Aziz undoubtedly knew the truth of the Secretary of State's assertions. But Aziz knows his boss too, and probably knows as well that no matter how unambiguously...
Excerpts from the President's letter to Saddam Hussein, given to Tariq Aziz by U.S. Secretary of State James Baker...