During the last Presidential debate Ross Perot charged George
Bush with ordering April Glaspie, the US Ambassador to Iraq at the time
of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the green light to invade Kuwait.  By
charging and asking Bush about this he was asking George Bush if he
created the Gulf Crisis.  Bush denied the charges and did not answer the
questions.  The following is a transcript from the Iraqi government of
the Glaspie and Saddam Hussein meeting.  The United States government 
and Glaspie herself have not stated that this transcript is faulty or untrue:

July 25, 1990 - Presidential Palace - Baghdad

Glaspie: I have direct instructions from President Bush to improve our
        relations with Iraq.  We have considerable sympathy for your
        quest for higher oil prices, the immediate cause of your con-
        frontation with Kuwait. (pause) As you know, I have lived here
        for years and admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your
        country.  We know you need funds.  We understand that, and our
        opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your
        country.  (pause)  We can see that you have deployed massive
        numbers of troops in the south.  Normally that would be none of
        our business, but when this happens in the context of your other
        threats against Kuwait, then it would be reasonable for us to
        be concerned.  For this reason, I have recieved an instruction to
        ask you, in the spirit of friendship - not confrontation - regard-
        ing your intentions:  Why are your massed so very close to 
        Kuwait's borders?
Saddam Hussien:  As you know, for years now I have made every effort to
        reach a settlement on our dispute with Kuwait.  There is to be
        a meeting in two days.  I am prepared to give negotiations only
        this one more brief chance. (pause) When we (the Iraqis) meet
        (with the Kuwaitis) and we see there is hope, then nothing will
        happen.  But if we are unable to find a solution, then it will be
        natural that Iraq will not accept death.
Glaspie: What Solutions will be acceptable?
Saddam Hussien: If we could keep the whole of the Shatt al Arab - our 
        strategic goal in our war with Iran - we will make concessions
        (to the Kuwaitis).  But if we are forced to choose between
        keeping half of the Shatt and the whole of Iraq(including Kuwait)
        then we will give up all of the Shatt and defend our claims on
        Kuwait to keep the whole of Iraq in the shape we wish it to be.
        What is the United States' opininion on this?
Glaspie: We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your
        dispute with Kuwait.  Secretary Baker has directed me to
        emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960's, 
        that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.

On August 2, 1990 Saddam invaded Kuwait.

One month later, British journalists obtained a tape of the above transcript.
On Sept 2, 1990 the astounded journalists asked her as she left the US
Embassy at Baghdad the following questions:

Journalist 1 : Are the transcripts correct, Madam Ambassador?
Glaspie does not respond.
Journalist 2 : You knew Saddam was going to invade, but you didn't warn
        him not to.  You didn't tell him America would defend Kuwait.
        You told him the opposite - that America was not associated with
        Kuwait.
Jounralist 1 : You encouraged this aggression - his invasion.  What were
        you thinking?
Glaspie             : Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the
        Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait.
Journalist 1 : You thought he was just going to take SOME of it?  But how
        COULD YOU?!  Saddam told you that, if negotiations failed, he would
        give up his Iran (Shatt al Arab waterway) goal for the "WHOLE of
        Iraq, in the shape we wish it to be."  You know that includes Kuwait,
        which the Iraqis have always viewed as a historic part of their
        country!
Glapsie says nothing pushing past two journalists to leave
Journalist 1 : American green-lighted the invasion.  At a minimum, you
        admit signalling Saddam that some aggression was okay - that the
        US would not oppose a grab of the al-Rumeilah oil field, the
        disputed border strip and the Gulf Islands - territories claimed
        by Iraq?
Glaspie says nothing and enters her limo and drives off.