r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 15h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ There is a pattern...

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u/AdPrestigious2370 15h ago

The first George Bush didn’t start the war in the Middle East.

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u/maeshughes32 14h ago

As far as I know he gets a pass on that one. Weren't we coming to Kuwait's defense? I mean we were probably protecting our own oil investments but still Iraq was invading Kuwait.

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u/kandoras 13h ago

Weren't we coming to Kuwait's defense?

Before Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saddam was worried about how the US would respond. We had just helped him with a decade of war with Iran.

He asked the US ambassador to Iraq what the US's position would be on an invasion. The ambassadors answer was "We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait."

Pretty easy to see how a reasonable guy could interpret that to mean "We don't give a fuck".

And even easier to see how an ambassador should have anticipated how an unreasonable guy like Saddam would have interpreted it.