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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 else can I help you with?
What year did Iraq invade Kuwait?
Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991
What tiny country did Iraq invade?
Kuwait.
Who did Iraq invade in 1990?
Iraq invaded Kuwait and Suadi Arabi
Why did the US lead a coalition to invade Iraq in 1991?
Iraq had invaded Kuwait.
Why did Iraq invade Turkey before the Persian Gulf War?
Iraq did not invade Turkey. Iraq invaded Kuwait which caused the Gulf War.
What small oil producing country did Iraq invade?
Kuwait.
Why did the United States lead a coalition to invade Iraq in 1991?
Answer this question…Iraq had invaded Kuwait.
Which country did Iraq invade in 1990 leading to the outbreak of the Persian?
Kuwait
What country did Iraq invade in 1990 based on claims of disputed oil?
Kuwait
What country did iraq invade in 1990 which started the persian gulf warthe?
That was Kuwait.
How did George Bush influence the decision to invade Iraq before during and after the invasion?
kuwait
What country did Iraq invade in 1990 claiming it as its 19 province?
Kuwait, to Iraq's southwest, was conquered by Iraq in 1990. It was considered the 19th province of Iraq since during the Ottoman Period, Kuwait was part of the Mesopotamian region dominated by Iraq. However, the separation of Kuwait by the British early on made it independent to all but the Iraqis.
