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St. Louis Jewish Light
April 12, 2018
In a parallel blunder, on July 25, 1990, April Glaspie, then U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told Saddam Hussein, that nation's dictator, in a face-to-face meeting: “We have no opinion of your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait.” She added that Secretary of State James Baker “has directed me toÃÂ ...
Mintpress News
March 29, 2018
Old-fashioned diplomacy involves direct communication between representatives of nations, a conversational give and take, often fraught with deception (see April Glaspie), but an exchange nonetheless. Public diplomacy, as defined by Beers, is something else entirely. It's a one-way street, a unilateralÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 28, 2018
For example, as far back as 1990 US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie told Saddam Hussein, “[W]e have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait,” in effect giving the green light to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and setting off the cascade of events that has led to theÃÂ ...
The National
March 18, 2018
Because without a clear answer, the ambiguity, deliberate or otherwise, might lead to something close to the April Glaspie scenario – the former US ambassador to Iraq who supposedly “lured” Saddam Hussein into the invasion of Kuwait by being vague about Washington's stance, even suggesting consentÃÂ ...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
February 8, 2018
... which was a U.S. ally that supplied America with oil. Hussein was angry that Kuwait kept oil prices down by overproducing, and even reportedly was slant-drilling Iraqi oil under the border. Knowing that an invasion of Kuwait might upset the U.S., Hussein infamously asked U.S. Ambassador April GlaspieÃÂ ...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
February 8, 2018
“President Trump is incredibly supportive of America's great service members who risk their lives every day to keep our country safe,” Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “He has asked the Department of Defense to explore a celebration at which all Americans can show theirÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 7, 2018
Hussein was angry that Kuwait kept oil prices down by overproducing, and even reportedly was slant-drilling Iraqi oil under the border. Knowing that an invasion of Kuwait might upset the US, Hussein infamously asked US Ambassador April Glaspie about the prospective invasion. Glaspie, under the ordersÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 7, 2018
Hussein was angry that Kuwait kept oil prices down by overproducing, and even reportedly was slant-drilling Iraqi oil under the border. Knowing that an invasion of Kuwait might upset the US, Hussein infamously asked US Ambassador April Glaspie about the prospective invasion. Glaspie, under the ordersÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 27, 2017
In July 1990, Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie reportedly assured Saddam Hussein, in careful diplomatese, that the Bush administration had no interest in adjudicating “Arab-Arab” border disputes between Iraq and Kuwait. A relieved Saddam invaded Kuwait a few weeks later. We might have wished thatÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
July 22, 2017
Without them, senior leaders can end up in disastrous versions of he said she said; Ambassador April Glaspie's solo discussion with Saddam Hussein before the Gulf War being a prototypical case. Meetings where one or both sides lack a note taker give the more devious of the two free reign to issueÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
July 6, 2017
Before Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saddam Hussein hosted a very important guest: then U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie. In her meeting with Saddam, Glaspie said the U.S. wished to be on amicable terms with Iraq while guaranteeing that they would remain impartial with regard to the border conflictÃÂ ...
Ricochet.com
August 2, 2016
You'll all remember the story of hapless April Glaspie, often blamed — unfairly, in my view — for the First Gulf War. She was accused of giving Saddam Hussein the very mistaken impression that the United States would remain neutral should he invade Kuwait. The transcripts of the meeting vary in theirÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy
January 8, 2011
I'm generally not inclined to take issue with my FP colleagues, but David Kenner's recent posting on the WikiLeaks release of a cable recounting Saddam Hussein's infamous meeting with U.S. ambassador April Glaspie deserves a response. In an article headlined "Why One U.S. Diplomat Didn't Cause theÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy
January 6, 2011
On July 25, 1990, Saddam Hussein summoned April Glaspie, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, to discuss Iraq's brewing dispute with Kuwait. Their discussion would eventually cost Glaspie her promising career as a diplomat. One week after the meeting, Saddam's troops would storm into Kuwait,ÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com
January 2, 2011
The cable, whose official title was “Saddam's Message of Friendship to President Bush” details the meeting between US Ambassador April Glaspie and Saddam Hussein on July 25, 1990, just a week before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The meeting has long been a matter of speculation, as it had long beenÃÂ ...
Spiegel Online
December 6, 2010
Did one clumsy statement by the US ambassador in Iraq trigger the first Gulf War? The leaked US cables show diplomats failed to pick up signs that Saddam Hussein was preparing to invade Kuwait, and that they painted his regime in a consistently favorable light in the years leading up to the conflict.
InsideSources
December 31, 1999
On July 25, 1990, with Iraqi military forces massing on the border with Kuwait, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie requested her first meeting with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The two nations were in the grip of a dispute over oil rights and other matters, with Iraq laying claim to Kuwait as its 19th province as aÃÂ ...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
February 8, 2018
“President Trump is incredibly supportive of America's great service members who risk their lives every day to keep our country safe,” Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “He has asked the Department of Defense to explore a celebration at which all Americans can show theirÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 7, 2018
Hussein was angry that Kuwait kept oil prices down by overproducing, and even reportedly was slant-drilling Iraqi oil under the border. Knowing that an invasion of Kuwait might upset the US, Hussein infamously asked US Ambassador April Glaspie about the prospective invasion. Glaspie, under the ordersÃÂ ...
STLtoday.com
November 22, 2017
Newton's replacement, April Glaspie, had been recalled after a controversial meeting with Hussein in which she had failed to communicate how strongly the United States would oppose his idea of invading Kuwait. The United States was days away from unleashing the 1991 Gulf War. But that's a differentÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
September 28, 2017
In 1990, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie's utterances to Saddam Hussein were interpreted as American indifference toward a potential Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The dire consequences of that mistake led to war, cost lives and treasure, and continue to haunt America 27 years later. If Glaspie instead told theÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 27, 2017
In July 1990, Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie reportedly assured Saddam Hussein, in careful diplomatese, that the Bush administration had no interest in adjudicating “Arab-Arab” border disputes between Iraq and Kuwait. A relieved Saddam invaded Kuwait a few weeks later. We might have wished thatÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
July 22, 2017
Without them, senior leaders can end up in disastrous versions of he said she said; Ambassador April Glaspie's solo discussion with Saddam Hussein before the Gulf War being a prototypical case. Meetings where one or both sides lack a note taker give the more devious of the two free reign to issueÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
July 6, 2017
Before Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saddam Hussein hosted a very important guest: then U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie. In her meeting with Saddam, Glaspie said the U.S. wished to be on amicable terms with Iraq while guaranteeing that they would remain impartial with regard to the border conflictÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy
January 8, 2011
I'm generally not inclined to take issue with my FP colleagues, but David Kenner's recent posting on the WikiLeaks release of a cable recounting Saddam Hussein's infamous meeting with U.S. ambassador April Glaspie deserves a response. In an article headlined "Why One U.S. Diplomat Didn't Cause theÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy
January 6, 2011
On July 25, 1990, Saddam Hussein summoned April Glaspie, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, to discuss Iraq's brewing dispute with Kuwait. Their discussion would eventually cost Glaspie her promising career as a diplomat. One week after the meeting, Saddam's troops would storm into Kuwait,ÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com
January 2, 2011
The cable, whose official title was “Saddam's Message of Friendship to President Bush” details the meeting between US Ambassador April Glaspie and Saddam Hussein on July 25, 1990, just a week before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The meeting has long been a matter of speculation, as it had long beenÃÂ ...
Spiegel Online
December 6, 2010
Did one clumsy statement by the US ambassador in Iraq trigger the first Gulf War? The leaked US cables show diplomats failed to pick up signs that Saddam Hussein was preparing to invade Kuwait, and that they painted his regime in a consistently favorable light in the years leading up to the conflict.
STLtoday.com
November 22, 2017
Newton's replacement, April Glaspie, had been recalled after a controversial meeting with Hussein in which she had failed to communicate how strongly the United States would oppose his idea of invading Kuwait. The United States was days away from unleashing the 1991 Gulf War. But that's a differentÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee
September 28, 2017
In 1990, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie's utterances to Saddam Hussein were interpreted as American indifference toward a potential Iraqi ...
The Bellingham Herald
September 28, 2017
In 1990, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie's utterances to Saddam Hussein were interpreted as American indifference toward a potential Iraqi ...
Consortium News
September 19, 2017
Yes, the Gulf War was U.N. approved and the whole world got behind it because (April Glaspie's backstory notwithstanding) the prima facie ...
Newsweek
August 27, 2017
In July 1990, Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie reportedly assured Saddam Hussein, in careful diplomatese, that the Bush administration had ...
POLITICO.eu
July 22, 2017
Without them, senior leaders can end up in disastrous versions of he said she said; Ambassador April Glaspie's solo discussion with Saddam ...
POLITICO.eu
July 22, 2017
Without them, senior leaders can end up in disastrous versions of he said she said; Ambassador April Glaspie's solo discussion with Saddam ...
Daily Sabah
July 6, 2017
Before Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saddam Hussein hosted a very important guest: then U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie. In her meeting with ...
HuffPost
June 27, 2017
... of the George H.W. Bush administration's ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, telling Saddam Hussein in 1990 that the U.S. had no “no opinion ...
New Republic
June 10, 2017
... when the Argentine junta mistakenly thought that President Ronald Reagan would back them and not the United Kingdom in the Falklands crisis, and in 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait because they mistakenly thought American diplomat April Glaspie backed the idea that Iraq had a claim on Kuwait.
HuffPost
June 7, 2017
The ghost of April Glaspie (the U.S. diplomat who unknowingly may have given Saddam Hussein the green light to invade Kuwait) may be ...
The Atlantic
May 27, 2017
And no one paid much attention when April Glaspie, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told Saddam Hussein that the United States had no interest in his border dispute with Kuwait until he invaded a week later. The problem is that Article 5 is ambiguous. It does not commit America to automatically defend aÃÂ ...
Business Insider
May 4, 2017
President Bush 41's Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, told Hussein the U.S. did not want a trade war with Iraq. Saddam committed to peace, ...
Vanity Fair
January 20, 2017
... Saddam Hussein felt he'd gotten a green light to invade Kuwait from ambiguous statements made by U.S. ambassador April Glaspie, but they ...
Foreign Policy
January 8, 2011
In a now famous interview with the Iraqi leader, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam, '[W]e have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, ...
Antiwar.com
January 2, 2011
... Message of Friendship to President Bush” details the meeting between US Ambassador April Glaspie and Saddam Hussein on July 25, 1990Â ...
Spiegel Online
December 6, 2010
On the morning of July 25, 1990, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein called in the US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie. It was her first meeting with ...
Newsweek
August 27, 2017
In July 1990, Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie reportedly assured Saddam Hussein, in careful diplomatese, that the Bush administration hadÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
August 10, 2017
... don't bother to defend Kuwait from unwarranted military force from Saddam -- there was no excuse for April Glaspie to accomodate Saddam.
The National Interest Online
July 24, 2017
Similarly, Saddam Hussein reportedly believed that U.S. ambassador April Glaspie's remarks to him about the border dispute between Iraq andÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
July 22, 2017
Without them, senior leaders can end up in disastrous versions of he said she said; Ambassador April Glaspie's solo discussion with SaddamÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
July 11, 2017
... when he decided to march on Kuwait and received vague pledges of non-intervention by the US ambassador to Baghdad April Glaspie.
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