During the last days of George W Bush Israel practiced a long-range strike against Iran. Attack appeared imminent. GW Bush certainly was pro-Armageddon. Cooler minds in the military refused Israel passage over Iraq and refueling by US air tankers. Without this help the mission was out of the question for Israel and President Obama has publicly warned Israel that there is no 'green light' for a preemptive bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities, contradicting his Vice President's comments that Israel is a free nation and can do whatever it wants to protect itself.
This is the type of language which encouraged Saddam to invade Kuwait.
From New York Times
On Wednesday July 25, 1990, the U.S. Ambassador in Iraq, April Glaspie, asked the Iraqi high command to explain the military preparations in progress, including the massing of Iraqi troops near the border. The American ambassador declared to her Iraqi interlocutor that Washington, “inspired by the friendship and not by confrontation, does not have an opinion” on the disagreement which opposes Kuwait to Iraq, stating "we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts". She also let Saddam Hussein know that the U.S. did not intend "to start an economic war against Iraq". These statements may have caused Saddam to believe he had received a diplomatic green light from the United States to invade Kuwait
Maybe she should have kept her mouth shut and so should Joe Biden, if that's possible.
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