Baiting and Switching Saddam, and the Fruit it Bears

WELL, LET'S SEE IF we can get all this straight. The Islamic State has obtained a new ally: the terrorist group in North Africa, which has pledged allegiance to the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria... Al Qaeda, meanwhile, is not allied with the Islamic State, but formerly was allied with the group in Libya. This is already getting too confusing. We are talking about at least three different entities here, none of which existed before the first of our many made in America wars with Iraq, and heaven forbid that all these many entities should begin to cooperate. The Islamic State is doing well enough already, don't you think? On July 25, 1990, the United States ambassador to Saddam in Iraq, April Glaspie, the first women to ever serve as ambassador to an Arab country, appointed by Bush the forty first, told Saddam that the United States did not care whether the Iraqis invaded Kuwait, did not care about anything or any disputes between Arab-Arab nations. When Saddam heard this, he smiled. Eight days later, he cashed our blank check, and invaded Kuwait. Suddenly we the United States got all bent outta shape, copped an attitude, forced Saudi Arabia to accept our army as it prepared to launch, and then we the people of the U.S.A. attacked Iraq, and the rest, as they say, is history. And what a mess Iraq is now! If you wish proof of this, simply go to google, and type in "April Glaspie", then scroll down to where it says "transcript of conversation with Saddam". And there it is. Available for all to see, because the State Department knows that nobody will care, so why not put it online? Just like Viet Nam, just like the Mexican War of 1846, just like the Spanish-american war of 1898, bait and switch, say one thing, lure a tantalizingly weak enemy into war, for them into war, by attacking them under false dishonest pretenses. This is the American empire, which Thomas Jefferson knew well. Jefferson said: "I fear for my country when I reflect that God is just". And so should we all. We should hope that God is either not just, or that he is not paying attention. I fear that neither is the case.