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Why would Iraq want to control a very tiny country like Kuwait?
1. If it was small compared to Iraq then it was easy to invade 2. It was very oil rich and if Iraq and Kuwait combined, it would control a lot of oil
What country did Iraq invade for oil?
Kuwait, to Iraq's southwest, was conquered by Iraq in 1990. Kuwait was invaded in 1990 by Iraq who claimed they had been stealing oil by drilling diagonally under the ground and also probably because Iraq did not want to repay the large amount of money they had borrowed from the Kuwaitis during the Iran-Iraq war. The US and a coalition of other nations then retaliated against Iraq in what is commonly referred to as the Gulf War.
What is the name of the country attacked and over run by Iraq on August 2 1990?
Kuwait, to Iraq's southwest, was conquered by Iraq in 1990. Kuwait was invaded in 1990 by Iraq who claimed they had been stealing oil by drilling diagonally under the ground and also probably because Iraq did not want to repay the large amount of money they had borrowed from the Kuwaitis during the Iran-Iraq war. The US and a coalition of other nations then retaliated against Iraq in what is commonly referred to as the Gulf War
Was The Persian Gulf War a result of Iraq invading Kuwait for their rich oil supply?
That is essentially true, although the motives for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait were a bit more complicated than that. Iraq had borrowed billions of dollars from Kuwait, to help finance its war with Iran, and it did not want to repay that loan. There were disputes about oil wells on the border between Iraq and Kuwait. It is also true that in an earlier historical period, Kuwait used to be part of Iraq, so it could be argued that Iraq was asserting a historical ownership of that region. And aside from all that, Saddam Hussein announced that his purpose for invading Kuwait was to (as he put it) liberate Palestine. I interpret this to mean, he wished to build a large empire which would then have enough military power to take on Israel. So there were lots of motives. But basically yes, Iraq wanted Kuwait's rich oil supply. And the rest of the world objected to this violation of the UN charter. From our current perspective in 2013, it is hard to be sure if this was really such a good idea. Perhaps we should have just let Iraq have Kuwait.
Was Kuwait a part of Iraq?
Answer 1when iraq was under the ottoman colonists but in after 1920 when British colonists came as they want to support Iraq by give Iraq independence from turkey. After that they asked the Iraqi king to sign agreement that makes British colony official in Iraq after he refuses they divide Kuwait and they threat him by doing the same thing for ninawa city and give it to turky if he refuses for the second time.Answer 2While it is true that Kuwait and parts of southern Iraq were part of the Vilayet of Basra in the Ottoman Empire, the Vilayet of Basra constituted less than 30% of modern Iraq in terms of land area. Iraq was established by the British colonialists who united several different Ottoman territories under one monarchy and they divided Kuwait off of the main group.
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.
During the first Persian Gulf War 1990-1991 what country did the Iraqi Army invade?
Kuwait, to Iraq's southwest, was conquered by Iraq in 1990. Kuwait was invaded in 1990 by Iraq who claimed they had been stealing oil by drilling diagonally under the ground and also probably because Iraq did not want to repay the large amount of money they had borrowed from the Kuwaitis during the Iran-Iraq war. The US and a coalition of other nations then retaliated against Iraq in what is commonly referred to as the Gulf War.
Why did Christianity branch out?
it didnt want to but different people with different ideas tore the church apart
Can a baby bring couples closer or apart?
if they wanted to have a baby they wil come closer but if the chick didnt want to get prego then they could get apart
Why were western leaders concerned when iraq invaded kuwait?
Kuwait is a huge producer of oil and the U.S. requires a lot of oil. The United States and some other countries did not want Sadaam Hussein to be in charge of so much of the world's oil.
Is Iran is a good place for business?
Iran want to take Bahrain. Qatar. Emirates. Saudi Arabia. Yemen. Oman. Iraq. Jordan. Kuwait. And Syria This is a bad thing
During the Gulf War why didn't America push the fight into Iraq when we had the men and proof we could defeat them?
Because, the mandate was to liberate Kuwait, not overthrow Iraq. Because our Arab partners in the war might not agree with the overthrow of Iraq. Because the USA hoped that Iraqis would overthrow Saddam Hussein without our help. Because we didn't want to get bogged down in another Vietnam type quagmire in Iraq in 1991. Because it would have taken a lot more money, soldiers and equipment to overthrow Iraq in 1991 than it took to liberate Kuwait.
