At what point in the "last time around" was this agreement for a slice of
Kuwait alleged to have been made?  The only thing I can recollect of that
nature was a weak response by our envoy a short time before he invaded
Kuwait as to the US's position on his saber rattling (not that I was paying
a whole lot of attention but that was one thing that hit the news back then
as to how SH could've gotten the idea that we wouldn't come to the Kuwaiti's
aid).

My understanding of the situation was that SH was pissed because the
Kuwaitis were supposedly taking advantage of the new "horizontal drilling
technology" (which may be able to drill down and then turn horizontal though
I have a real hard time imagining the hardware that can do that), using it
to cross the Kuwait/Iraq border and take Iraqi oil.

Mind you this is just my understanding/recollection of what took place.

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From: Ken Follett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:57 AM
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Subject: Re: Iraq response & Constitution
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I also understand that the US told Saddam that he could have a piece of
Kuwait the last time around, some of their oil reserves, only he got greedy
and took too much and we therefore had to go in to slap him around as a
result.
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