90BAGHDAD4237 Embassy Baghdad: Viewing Cable 90baghdad4237, Saddam'S Message of Friendship To President Bush
90BAGHDAD4237 Embassy Baghdad: Viewing Cable 90baghdad4237, Saddam'S Message of Friendship To President Bush
O 251246Z JUL 90
FM AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4627
INFO AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY CAIRO IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY KUWAIT IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY RIYADH IMMEDIATE
ARABLEAGUE COLLECTIVE
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INTERPRETER.
2010/12/16
2010/12/15 ¶4. SADDAM, WHOSE MANNER WAS CORDIAL,
2010/12/14 REASONABLE AND EVEN WARM THROUGHOUT THE ENSUING
TWO HOURS, SAID HE WISHED THE AMBASSADOR TO
2010/12/13 CONVEY A MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT BUSH. SADDAM
2010/12/12 THEN RECALLED IN DETAIL THE HISTORY OF IRAQ'S
2010/12/11 DECISION TO REESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
2010/12/10 AND ITS POSTPONING IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT
2010/12/09 DECISION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR, RATHER THAN BE
THOUGHT WEAK AND NEEDY. HE THEN SPOKE ABOUT THE
2010/12/08 MANY "BLOWS" OUR RELATIONS HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO
2010/12/07 SINCE 1984, CHIEF AMONG THEM IRANGATE. IT WAS
2010/12/06 AFTER THE FAW VICTORY, SADDAM SAID, THAT IRAQI
2010/12/05 MISAPPREHENSIONS ABOUT USG PURPOSES BEGAN TO
2010/12/04 SURFACE AGAIN, I.E., SUSPICIONS THAT THE U.S. WAS
NOT HAPPY TO SEE THE WAR END.
2010/12/03
2010/12/02 ¶5. PICKING HIS WORDS WITH CARE, SADDAM SAID
2010/12/01 THAT THERE ARE "SOME CIRCLES" IN THE USG,
2010/11/30 INCLUDING IN CIA AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT,
2010/11/29 BUT EMPHATICALLY EXCLUDING THE PRESIDENT AND
SECRETARY BAKER, WHO ARE NOT FRIENDLY TOWARD
2010/11/28 IRAQ-U.S. RELATIONS. HE THEN LISTED WHAT HE
SEEMED TO REGARD AS FACTS TO SUPPORT THIS
Browse by creation date CONCLUSION: "SOME CIRCLES ARE GATHERING
INFORMATION ON WHO MIGHT BE SADDAM HUSAYN'S
66 72 75 79 86 88 89 90 SUCCESSOR;" THEY KEPT UP CONTACTS IN THE GULF
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 WARNING AGAINST IRAQ; THEY WORKED TO ENSURE
08 09 10 NO HELP WOULD GO TO IRAQ (READ EXIM AND CCC).
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GLASPIE
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