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| Sammy 'apologizes' to Kuwait... |
| 2002-12-07 |
| President Saddam Hussein on Saturday apologized to the Kuwaiti people for his country's invasion of Kuwait 1990, saying he was not apologizing out of weakness but a desire to set the record straight. In a speech read on national television by the Iraqi information minister, Saddam outlined the events that led to the invasion and said: "We apologize to God about any act that has angered him in the past and that was held against us, and we apologize to you (the Kuwaitis) on the same basis." The speech, however, laid out a long series of past events that seemed to justify the invasion. Saddam avoided using the word "invasion" and instead said Iraq's army had "entered" Kuwait. He also was careful to distinguish between the Kuwait people and their leaders, and he warned Kuwaitis that the Americans were only interested in their oil wealth. There was no immediate official reaction from Kuwait, and the official Kuwaiti state media did not carry the speech. The was probably no official reaction from Kuwait because they were trying to figure out what the hell he was talking about. FoxNews carried part of the speech, and to me it sounded like the ramblings of a madman. Schwartzkopf, y'see, had been planning on war with Iraq all along, so the little misunderstanding between Sammy and the 19th province just presented a pretext, and the Iraqis were just standing around, not bothering anybody, an'... an'... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |