"But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait." US Ambassador April Glaspie to Saddam Hussein prior to the aggression of Iraq against Kuwait, as quoted from a transcript supplied by Iraq to the New York Times. It is reported that later Glaspie told a reporter to the effect that it had never been considered that Saddam would take all of Kuwait. A journalist questioned then as to what amount of Kuwait the Bush administration did expect Saddam to take as a result of the implication that America took no interest in the Iraq-Kuwait border conflict. No answer. If any of this is true I have no idea. It may have been more a case of Glaspie not being quite up to the task and her misunderstanding the depth of the intentions behind Saddam's words. Regardless, the incident is often cited as the US having given Saddam permission to invade and annex Kuwait. XXX ][<en