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What to answer to peoples saying USA offensive against iraq for "invading kuwait" was justified ? (hexbear.net)
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[–] Babs@hexbear.net 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late 1960s. The instruction we had during this period was that we should express no opinion on this issue and that the issue is not associated with America. James Baker has directed our official spokesmen to emphasize this instruction. We hope you can solve this problem using any suitable methods via Klibi (Chedli Klibi, Secretary General of the Arab League) or via President Mubarak. All that we hope is that these issues are solved quickly.

-April Glaspie, ambassador to Iraq, as quoted in the NYT in September 1990

Our ambassador told Saddam that it would be none of our business. When he acted accordingly, we decided that no, actually this is very our business.