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- From: must@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mustafa Syed)
- Subject: Re: What is there to be said!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.214336.905@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <5250@gos.ukc.ac.uk> <1993Jan19.195259.8024@leland.Stanford.EDU> <5258@gos.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:43:36 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- In article <5258@gos.ukc.ac.uk> az1@ukc.ac.uk (A.Zafar) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.195259.8024@leland.Stanford.EDU> must@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mustafa Syed) writes:
- >>In article <5250@gos.ukc.ac.uk> az1@ukc.ac.uk (A.Zafar) writes:
- >>>
- >>>i to assume that you believe that USA encouraged Iraq into Kuwait, am I to
- >>
- >> Yes you can safely assume that. I do believe, backed by strong
- >> circumstantial evidence as well as direct qoutes of Glasby in this
- >> context.
- >>
- >>>assume that the first war wouldd have been nuclear so the troubles would
- >>
- >> This is more relevant to your last question so read on...
- >>
- >>>not have be prolonged or am I to assume that USA would never have come to
- >>>help Kuwait because Iraq was nuclear.
- >>>
- >> Yes you can again assume that. Had it been "SOVIET UNION" instead
- >> of Iraq, invading and occupying Kuwait, US of A would not have
- >> come to liberate Kuwait. They would have surely reinforced there
- >> presence in Saudi Arabia but no more!
- >
- > No way. The US would have sent in troops to Kuwait the minute they
- >felt it was threatened. That is the US zone of influence.
-
- This can be one scenario, I can easily defend my earlier statement
- or even come up with more versions...opposite to yours, but it
- wont serve any purpose and when it comes to opinions almost
- anything can be justified! :-)
-
- >
- >> I am really surprised that you STILL think that US of A attacked
- >> Iraq out of sympathy for Kuwait, out of concern for violation of
- >> UN charter and the rest of the crap!!!!
- >> Wake up man!
- >
- > Wake up???? When did I EVER say that USA attacked Iraq out of
- >sympathy for Kuwait???!!!! I certainly believe that USA had given Iraq the
- >go ahead and misled Iraq. Before I go into details on why I believe this my
- >point in the last paragraph was, I did not understand what the other guy was
- >trying to say as to give an appropriate answer. I could have taken his
- >statement to mean any of the statements and I did not know whether to agree
- >with him or disagree.
-
- I see your point. Sorry for not comprehending the context of your
- statement. Based on your numerous other postings it seemed too
- incredulous to me that you would state what I thought you had stated,
- hence my reply....normally I would not have even bothered to
- respond if the poster was some XYZ. My apologies once again.
-
- Mustafa Syed.
-
-
- > - Aman Zafar _ /|
- > - University of Kent \'o.O'
- > - England. =(___)=
- > U
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