[SATLUG] [Even More OT] Speechless

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Travis is correct, Sadam complained and warned Kuwait to quit overpumping their OPEC quota or he was going to invade Kuwait.  Sadam then called in the U.S Ambassador and asked if we had any objections about Iraq invading Kuwait, the Ambassador said NO, we did not.  After we uncrossed our fingers (no objection) the Ambassador then lied to Congress and denied saying we had no objection (after more than a month of coaching).  Don't recall her name, but she was very uneasy during her testimony.

>That's not what he said at the various Arab summits. He had been complaining
>of slant drilling into the oilfield they share and the Kuwaitis producing
>more oil than their OPEC quotas. One of those companies pumping the oil
>in Kuwait was a joint Kuwaiti-US venture, and George Bush Sr. was an
>investor in it. They said numerous times that they would leave when someone
>would enforce the Kuwaiti's OPEC quotas.

AFAIK: The Constitution does not provide for the invasion of a sovereign country without declaration of war, and Congress is responsible for this, not President acting on a whim.