> It was clear very early on that there was going to
>be a response from the US and others. He went
>into a defensive mode.
> To answer Doug's original question, I have no
>handy published source for this. Maybe it is false.
>I can say, however, that it was widely believed in
>Saudi Arabia for a lot of reasons that I shall not go
>into here.
It was also widely believed in the early 1980s that a Libyan hit squad was loose in the U.S. It was widely believed in 17th century Massachusetts that certain women were witches.
> So, anyone who does not wish to believe it, feel
>free to disbelieve it.
It's not that I don't wish to believe it. I just don't like believing stuff without evidence.
> But, if one feels that invading
>Kuwait was a progressive wonderful thing to do should
>also think the same of invading Saudi Arabia, a much
>more reactionary country.
Is doubting Saddam Hussein's intention to invade Saudi Arabia somehow an implied endorsement of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait? Not in my case, it isn't.
Doug