At 09:08 AM 9/26/96 -0500, Phil Fraering wrote:

Shortly after the Gulf War elements in the Iraqi military tried to overthrow Hussein; they apparently tried to co-ordinate with the U.S., who tried to co-ordinate with Saudi Arabia, who warned Saddam that there was going to be a coup attempt; gotta stop that Ol' power vaccuum...

The fact that the people who performed the Bay of Pigs were enticed into it by promised but withdrawn U.S. military support is a matter of public record; would Castro still be in power had the United States not (intentionally? I don't know) destroyed the core resistance against him in that fashion?

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