Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 18 2011

In a July 1990 diplomatic cable recently publicized by the WikiLeaks whistleblower group, then-U.S. ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie described a now infamous meeting with Saddam Hussein in which she told the dictator that the U.S. government would not intervene in Iraq?s dispute with Kuwait.

Iraq, Saddam insisted, ?was in serious financial difficulties? as a result of its war with Iran, which had been supported by Washington and its Arab allies. The Iraqi dictator accused Kuwait of being ungrateful and selfish by waging ?economic war? on Iraq by undercutting OPEC?s oil price targets. This dispute eventually led to Iraq?s attempted seizure of Kuwait?s oil assets.

Just a few days ago, , Saddam?s complaint was repackaged by Fox News commentator Sean Hannity only this time the problem is rising ? rather than falling ? oil prices.

Referring to Kuwait?s supposed ingratitude, Hannity fumed: ?You know, we have every right to go in there and frankly take all their oil and make them pay for [their] liberation."

Hannity would have made a splendid mouthpiece for Saddam Hussein.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.