Saddam Apologizes For Attacking Kuwait -- Sort Of

It was more like, 'I'm sorry you gave me no choice but to attack.'

He contends now that Kuwait and the US were conspiring to attack him and that Kuwait was siphoning off on oil on the border that was Iraq's. Presumably all of the oil buried underground in Kuwait belongs to him as well.

He said that in 1989, he had tried to reach a peaceful settlement of Iraq's dispute with Kuwait, but that the neighboring Gulf country's officials were not interested in negotiating.

"There was no hope in solving issues by diplomatic means," he said.

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