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    Christiane Amanpour‏Verified account @camanpour 13 May 2015

    If US had simply told Saddam in 1990 it didn’t want him to invade Kuwait, he wouldn’t have done it, Morell tells me:http://cnn.it/1cxGvsT 

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      1. Archivist1000‏ @Archivist1000 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour April Glaspie to Saddam : USA has no interest in your border dispute with Kuwait. I remember that.

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      1. Leila Hatoum‏ @Leila1H 14 May 2015
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        @camanpour @EddeRoger something that most of arabs living in the middle east knew since 1990.

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      1. Masoumeh Naseri‏ @mimnoon 13 May 2015
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        مقام سابق #سیا میگه اگر سال ۱۹۹۰ آمریکا یک کلمه به صدام می‌گفت به کویت حمله نکن، صدام حمله نمی‌کرد.“@camanpour: http://cnn.it/1cxGvsT ”

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      1. Marwan Ahmed‏ @merosoccer 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour wrong link?

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      1. alain chemali‏ @Alain_Chemali 16 May 2015
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        @camanpour @Bala_mazeh C'était la 1ère saison de la famille des buveurs de pétrole texans #Bush avant la saison 2 du chaos constructif

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      1. Anders Romelsjö‏ @romelsj 14 May 2015
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        @camanpour"En CIA-chef lyfter lite på förlåten" -blogginlägg påhttp://jinge.se 

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      1. Pieter Visser‏ @pjv1968 14 May 2015
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        @camanpour @Irmak_Ye Sounds like a fairy tale....

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      1. Mirza Zahid Iqbal‏ @zim22pk 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour But then how would the West have got to use weapons accumulated for cold war close to end of shelf life & get arabs 2 pay for it

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      1. Madame Blueberry‏ @shekissesfrogs 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour Iraq was already under sanctions. U.S. got a base in Saudi Arabia by claiming falsely saddam was massing troops on the border

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      1. White Eagle‏ @WhiteEagle1927 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour Bush, Sr. told US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, to tell Saddam if he invaded Kuwait, the US would not interfere. But we did!

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      1. (((Yerebatan)))‏ @Yerebatan1 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour @MazMHussain Christiane, u r a cog in the giant wheel of war machinery and no amount of shoddy journalism can cover that fact

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      1. Truth Hurts  🔥‏ @TruthHurtz2019 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour I've been saying this for decades, finally nice to hear it getting traction.

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      1. Michael Savino‏ @supt5225 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour - Maybe that is true, but would it have stopped us from invading him in 2003?

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      1. K4CID‏ @LtcrothBill 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour. Pardon me while I chock. The guy was a mad man. He believed he was a chosen warrior of Allah.

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      1. Diamondgirl23‏ @astinos2323 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour Not a fan of Saddam's. I truly believe he did as he was told to do by Bush family. They set him up to get what they wanted then

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      1. Sadiq Marwan Abubakar‏ @AbubakarMarwan 13 May 2015
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        @camanpour what difference does it make now?

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