European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saddam surely gets clearer picture now. By Martin Schram Scripps Howard America s statesmen in office and especially its statesmen in exile just Learned a lesson about the need to Beever vigilant when sending messages Viann the diplomatic Pouch of the 90s you never know who might be peeking into the Pouch and misreading the mail. Which is no doubt just what Saddam Hussein did in the past month As he monitored can from Bagh dad. He heard sex president Bush and his sex alums denouncing unequivocally the military ultimatum that president Clinton had just declared. George Bush. Dan Quayle Dick Cheney Larry Eagleburger. Retired Gen. Norman no More stormin Schwarzkopf one by one the men who rained military misery Down on Saddam in 1991 appeared on our can screens and Saddam s and opposed president Clinton s sept. 15 vow to invade Haiti if its despots did t surrender Power. Also opposing Clinton s military invasion plans were Capitol Hill s grand old pachyderms Bob Dole Newt Gingrich it Al who had supported Fer vently and quite properly the 1991 Gulf War. They re entitled to state their views but one thing was missing in their televised comments none of their concerns about using military Force in Haiti was accompanied by a warning that they would strongly support sending troops to other world trouble spots should a threat erupt. Think about it from Saddam s warped View mis Reading America s military resolve is perhaps the Only thing Saddam can do with consistency. So it s Norman Schwarzkopf said avoid Haiti. Lbs not surprising that he concluded wrongly once again that America lacks the resolve to follow presi Dent Clinton into any War anywhere and surely won t follow this not so popular president Back into the persian Gulf. No doubt he also concluded that nations like Russia and France were too eager to do business with a Sanction free Iraq to Back a new Gulf War Effort / Here is what Saddam heard in the hours after Clinton s Haiti invasion speech. From can s Wolf Blitzer on sept. 16 opposition continues from Many quarters especially Froni Congress and also from the commanders of opera Tion desert storm.". Bush if the president gets Imo puts a person there Well,.i la support i Hope he does  reporter Why is it a mistake. Bush Well hell figure it out. It s very Clear to me.". We must assume Bush s opposition was Clear to. Saddam camouflaged As it was in a Thicket of mangled syntax to the rest of us Schwarzkopf i do not believe that we should militarily and it s my personal opinion purely per Sonal opinion i Don t know one thing in Haiti that s Worth the life of an american Serviceman or  sex defense Secretary Cheney i Don t think we ought to be in Haiti at  Quayle invading Haiti is wrong. It s not in our vital National Security interest. Unfortunately american lives will be lost. The reason we Are where we arc today is because this administration simply does not comprehend the nuances the importance of foreign policy. They Don t understand what foreign policy is All about and How you execute it time out this from the same cd Vcci whose Bush Quayle administration so screwed up its for eign policy nuances that in 1990 its ambassador seemed to Tell Saddam Flat out that the United states would t lift a Finger or a firearm if he look Kuwait. So he did. Then it took an All out War to execute our Way out of that sex Secretary of state Eagleburger asked on can s crossfire about the fact that after Haiti s military coup than president Bush had called Haiti a National Security threat to the United slates re plied George Bush did not put one single amen can Soldier s foot in Haiti. I am sure that if. George Bush had known you were going to use it against him two and a half years later he would t have said  today All but the Bush diehards can see clearly with Hindsight that we would have been better off if Bush had not let Saddam and half of his elite re publican guard troops escape unscathed now sad dam can Jerk the mightiest nation in the world around like a puppet on a string i just move troops to his Border and Uncle Sam must Rush a huge Force Halfway around the world. And when Saddam s not jerking us around in pub Lic he s scheming to obtain a nuclear bomb in secret. But let s Hope our leaders present past future have Learned one crucial lesson of diplomatic communication in the satellite to age never again should you let your eagerness to site step a crisis next door be misinterpreted As a Lack of resolve on the far Side of the planet. You re speaking to a global Village. So spell it out. Every time. October 23, 1934 sunday Page 7