Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00079)

That's fair enough. After all, the document in question is clearly 
identified as being only "excepts" from the meeting. Since she herself 
confirmed the accuracy of the relevant parts of the edited document in 
the Frontline interview, it is still easy for me to see how Saddam would 
have taken her replies as a "green light" to invade. Since her own 
notes of the conversation remain classified, we may never know what the 
"distortions" are. --jhe


Bart Lidofsky wrote:

>Jerry Hejka-Ekins wrote:
> 
>
>>>	April Glaspie claims that the transcript of the interview was a 
>>>fabrication.
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>Where is the source of your information that Glaspie claims the 
>>transcript to be a fabrication? The article you provided below does not 
>>anywhere make such a claim. 
>> 
>>
>
>	Sorry; I looked through a number of articles in checking out your 
>questions, and tried to post the ones I felt were the least partisan. I 
>read the quote in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR:
>
>http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1999/05/27/p23s3.htm
>
>	'She said she was the victim of "deliberate deception
>	on a major scale," and denounced the Iraqi transcript
>	as "a fabrication" that distorted her position, though
>	it contained "a great deal" that was accurate.'
>
>	Bart
>
>
> 
>



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