Sorry, that doesn't hold water. One comment (if it happened) couldn't possibly overcome what every one knew would be the result if they invaded. There was no ambiguity over what the US's response would be.
This is not the lead up to WWII 75 years ago, we were all around when this occurred.

I did read it.
Saddam should not have been surprised at our response. He was not thinking he had some kind of green light blessing. In fact, he wasn't thinking. He was blinded by the bubble locked himself in.

I want to make sure we're on the same page here. Are you telling me that on the night the US lit up the sky at the start of their shock and awe, that Saddam was totally surprised and couldn't believe he'd been lied to? That he thought he had a greenlight from the US government to do whatever he wanted in Kuwait?

you kind of dodged my question there. Once again, are you saying that up until the bombs fell Saddam was under the impression he had a greenlight from the US?

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 04/11/17 at 20:07:13:




http://www.unz.com/article/the-nerve-agent-attack-in-khan-shaykhun-syria/

http://www.globalresearch.ca/pentagon-trained-syrias-al-qaeda-rebels-in-the-u...


"world ain't what it seems, is it gunny?"

https://youtu.be/fqZuL8iZchU

I haven't posted what needs read.

Click the link above,

running Hill & Knowlton's Washington office was Craig Fuller, one of Bush's closest friends and inside political advisors. The news media never bothered to examine Fuller's role until after the war had ended, but if America's editors had read the PR trade press, they might have noticed this announcement, published in O'Dwyer's PR Services before the fighting began: "Craig L. Fuller, chief of staff to Bush when he was vice-president, has been on the Kuwaiti account at Hill & Knowlton since the first day. He and [Bob] Dilenschneider at one point made a trip to Saudi Arabia, observing the production of some 20 videotapes, among other chores. The Wirthlin Group, research arm of H&K, was the pollster for the Reagan Administration. ... Wirthlin has reported receiving $1.1 million in fees for research assignments for the Kuwaitis. Robert K. Gray, Chairman of H&K/USA based in Washington, DC had leading roles in both Reagan campaigns. He has been involved in foreign nation accounts for many years. ... Lauri J. Fitz-Pegado, account supervisor on the Kuwait account, is a former Foreign Service Officer at the US Information Agency who joined Gray when he set up his firm in 1982."75

In addition to Republican notables like Gray and Fuller, Hill & Knowlton maintained a well-connected stable of in-house Democrats who helped develop the bipartisan support needed to support the war. Lauri Fitz-Pegado, who headed the Kuwait campaign, had previously worked with super-lobbyist Ron Brown representing Haiti's Duvalier dictatorship. Hill & Knowlton senior vice-president Thomas Ross had been Pentagon spokesman during the Carter Administration. To manage the news media, H&K relied on vice-chairman Frank Mankiewicz, whose background included service as press secretary and advisor to Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern, followed by a stint as president of National Public Radio. Under his direction, Hill & Knowlton arranged hundreds of meetings, briefings, calls and

The Story of the assemblage of lies was given an award in Canada.

ter the war ended, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation produced an Emmy award-winning TV documentary on the PR campaign titled "To Sell a War." The show featured an interview with Wirthlin executive Dee Alsop in which Alsop bragged of his work and demonstrated how audience surveys were even used to physically adapt the clothing and hairstyle of the Kuwait ambassador so he would seem more likeable to TV audiences. Wirthlin's job, Alsop explained, was "to identify the messages that really resonate emotionally with the American people." The theme that struck the deepest emotional chord, they discovered, was "the fact that Saddam Hussein was a madman who had committed atrocities even against his own people, and had tremendous power to do further damage, and he needed to be stopped."79