Re: An Iraqi city councilman just shot and killed 3 of our brave soldiers!!
I will ask my old friend Pam T. who was in Iran for many years. As an Air Force wife, she had a high rank in the local society. When I asked her if she ever saw the Shaw, she said she went bowling with him often. Somewhat disbelieving, she answered in Farsi. It sounded like what I hear on TV.
April's story goes on; one part says this:
One version of the transcript has Glaspie saying:
We can see that you have deployed massive numbers of troops in the south. Normally that would be none of our business, but when this happens in the context of your threats against Kuwait, then it would be reasonable for us to be concerned. For this reason, I have received an instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship ? not confrontation ? regarding your intentions: Why are your troops massed so very close to Kuwait's borders?
Another is this:
The State Department never offered Glaspie another job requiring confirmation by the U.S. Senate. It never refuted or even commented on Baghdad?s misleading version of the Glaspie/Saddam conversation where Saddam tried, entirely dishonestly, to make it appear that the U.S. had not really opposed the Iraqi attack.
In 1993, then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright struck a gratuitously cruel blow against Glaspie when she ordered Ambassador Glaspie to be out of her office at the U.S. Mission in New York, where Glaspie was then assigned, by the end of that day.
April has retired from the State Department.
What to believe?
