A fascinating piece of history, courtesy of Wikileaks. The text of the cable that then- US ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, wrote to the State Department detailing her meeting with Saddam Hussein right before Iraq invaded Kuwait. Many observers at the time blamed Glaspie for not convincing Saddam that we meant business. Most interesting to me was Saddam’s apparent anger at USIA, our public diplomacy program that often gets short shrift from Congress. Seems USIA had seriously gotten Saddam’s goat. Second interesting nugget is Glaspie saying that Saddam sincerely wanted peace. Oops.