Posted
11:27 AM
by Gene
Although Saudi Arabia provided limited help to the United States in the initial phases of the war, Saud had recommended a coup to oust Saddam — not the dismantling of the Iraqi government.Perhaps a coup might have worked -- or it might have engendered the kind of "fragmentation" the Saudi foreign minister claims to see. In any event if we had tried a coup we'd have been subjected thereafter to dozens of SPECIAL REPORTS.