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Why did Iraq invade Kuwait and declare Kuwait a part of Iraq?
Iraq wanted to control Kuwait's oil and take advantage of how close they were to the persain gulf
What were some of the long term and short term effects of the Persian gulf war?
For the first war, the short term effect was the ongoing tension between Iraq and Kuwait over Kuwait's oil fields. Another short term effect was when Iraq invaded Kuwait to take over their oil supply.
What was the cause of Desert Storm?
After a long war between Iraq and Iran, Saddam had depleted the treasury and was looking to replenish the country's bank accounts (which he actually used more often for himself and his family's comforts). He had long tired to claim that Kuwait was actually part of Iraq and it didn't hurt that they were rich in oil, so he invaded.After the US positioned the armed forces in the Persian Gulf and surrounding countries, President H.W. Bush gave deadlines for the Iraqis to leave Kuwait that came and went. Bush bombed strategic Iraqi targets on January 17, 1991 for 100 days and then sent in ground forces in February. The ground campaign lasted only 100 hours.
What happened in the first Gulf War?
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Why did Saddam Hussein attack Kuwait in 1990?
Answer 1Saddam accused oil companies in Kuwait of slant drilling. The Iraqi oil fields do not extend beneath Kuwait, so American companies drilled at a shallow angle, from Kuwait to within Iraq, to tap into Iraq's oil field. If you had a gold deposit beneath your property, the gold belongs to you, the property owner. If your neighbor digs a tunnel down from their property, then laterally to a point under yours to reach and extract the your gold, that is theft.Saddam met with April Glaspie, a US Ambassador at the time, to discuss his dispute. Glaspie led Saddam to believe the US would not intervene if Saddam attacked Kuwait, but that was not true. See the link below.Answer 2After his war with Iran, Saddam considered himself as victorious for defeating Iran (as he thought). so his ego grew so large that he wanted to get back Kuwait as a part of Iraq!Of course, the Americans that encouraged him, and helped him to fight the Iranians, opposed him this time, so the operation desert storm happened, and the other Arab governments that supported him with money on Iran, also faced him this time, it was a bad decision for him, strategically, to go to war with both Kuwait and Iran, but he was stupid. we all know how his country and him ended up to be.Answer 3To acquire more territory and resources that he believed were justifiably a part of the Iraqi nation.Also, it is alleged that April Glass of the United States said to the Iraqis that America wouldn't mind.The official reason is that Iraq had decided to re-annex Kuwait, which was the 19th province of Iraq long ago and Iraq felt it had been taken away illegally.This is true, but the reason Iraq decided to re-annex Kuwait was the Iraqis caught the Kuwaiti government slant-drilling into Iraq's richest oil field, the al-Rumaila, and ordered them to stop. Kuwait wouldn't stop doing it, so Saddam dealt with the problem.
How long does it take to fly from Kuwait to Baghdad?
The distance between Kuwait and Iraq (to each other's capitals) is 347 miles. You can go by road - would take you 1 hours to enter Iraq from Kuwait City. In the pedantic sense, as Iraq and Kuwait border each other, you can go from Iraq to Kuwait by simply standing on the border and stepping over, so it would take virtually no time to go from Kuwait to Iraq.
How long does it take to get from Balad Iraq to Kuwait?
2 hours
How long was the drive- through line in Kuwait city?
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Why did Iraq invade Kuwait and declare Kuwait a part of Iraq?
Iraq wanted to control Kuwait's oil and take advantage of how close they were to the persain gulf
What are the main reasons that the Persian Gulf war took place using examples from Iraq-Iran conflicts and Iraq-Kuwait conflicts?
The 'Gulf War' of 1991 took place as the result of Iraqi aggression against the small oil-producing Arabic nation of Kuwait and reactive aggression by the United States (and other nations) against Iraq. While the United States had increasingly supported Iraq during the long and devastating Iran-Iraq war (also known as the 'Gulf War') in the 1980s, Iraq's increasing hostility toward Kuwait (due to perceived or actual conflicts of interest between the two Arabic nations), then its military takeover of the nation in 1990, led the United States to foment a response. This response erupted into full-scale war in January of 1991 and resulted not only in the liberation of Kuwait but in partial occupation of Iraq by 'Coalition' troops.
Why are Iraq invade Kuwait?
Iraq invaded Kuwait because the US ambassador to Iraq told him he could. What happened: In 1990 the Kuwaitis bought a machine called a slant drill. It's used by oil drillers to get into really weird oil deposits. If you found a pool of oil under a 5000-foot mountain, you would slant drill into the pool because drilling straight down through a 5000-foot mountain would take a very long time. Kuwait didn't want the drill to go around a mountain; they bought it to drill into the al-Rumaila Oil Field. This they did. The al-Rumaila Oil Field is completely inside Iraq. Oops. Saddam called a meeting with our ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, and told her that if she didn't have the US tell Kuwait to stop tapping Iraq's oil he was going to annex Kuwait into Iraq. (Iraq has 18 provinces. They consider Kuwait to be their 19th province.) Glaspie told Saddam, "the United States has no position on your current border dispute." Saddam read that as meaning the US didn't care whether he invaded Kuwait so he did that.
What country is located closest to Iraq?
The country located closest to Iraq is Iran, sharing a long border to the east.
How long is a flight from Kirkuk Iraq to Kuwait?
about a 90 minute ride via C-130- C-17 seems about 30 minutes
Was the Iraq-Iran war the last resort?
Not by a long shot.
What were some of the long term and short term effects of the Persian gulf war?
For the first war, the short term effect was the ongoing tension between Iraq and Kuwait over Kuwait's oil fields. Another short term effect was when Iraq invaded Kuwait to take over their oil supply.
How long is the border between Iraq and Iran?
936 kilometres long.
How long is a flight between Kuwait and Jordon?
1 hour and 20 minutes
