The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

dent Ronald Reagan's administration had secretly supplied Iraq with
information and arms during the war against Iran. The United States
initiated a decisive aid programme to Iraq in 1982, after American
intelligence had announced that there was considerable risk that Iraq
would be defeated by Iran. Via Egypt, the Iraqis received tanks, heli-
copters, and equipment for their nuclear energy programme and sub-
stances for the production of biological weapons (Newsweek, 23
September 2002).
Eventually, the United States blew up Iran's oilrigs, attacked its
patrol boats, and even killed 290 Iranians by shooting down an
Iranian passenger plane. A few weeks later, Iran ceased all hostilities.
Teheran was afraid of an American attack.
It was Rockefeller who had encouraged Iraq to wage war on Iran.
The Iran-Iraq War went on from 1980 to 1988, and cost more than
650 000 lives. Iraq lost 150 000 soldiers, Iran lost 500 000.
On 31 July 1990, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern
affairs, John Kelly, testified to Congress: "The United States has no
commitment to defend Kuwait and the US has no intention of defending
Kuwait, if it is attacked by Iraq."
Eight days after April Glaspie's conversation with Saddam Hussein,
on 2 August 1990, Iraqi troops invaded and occupied Kuwait. Trans-
cripts of the meeting was published on 1 October 1990 in Time Maga-
zine. This was followed by the secretary of state's fit of rage against
April Glaspie. But it was too late. No one took the State Department
denial seriously.
In March 1991, April Glaspie was questioned by the Senate Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations, where she admitted that the conver-
sation with Saddam Hussein had really taken place. The United States
used similar tactics to set a trap for the Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic.
The American ambassador, as well as the British and Soviet am-
bassadors, left Kuwait two days before the attack.
George Bush's plan for Saddam Hussein was to lead him into a
trap, where the only way out was by doing the dirty work for the
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