The Country Saddam Hussein invaded was Kuwait for their resources and because Iraq thought that they would get more power , but the invasion just lead to another war .
Iraq, under the dictator Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait in 1990
Saddam Hussein became leader of Iraq in the early 1970s, so Saddam was leader of Iraq in 1990.
IRAN did not invade Kuwait, Saddam Hussein in Iraq did.
Saddam Hussein
saddam husein
Saddam Hussein
In early August 1990 Iraq invaded and annexed its small neighbor Kuwait at the order of president Saddam Hussein. This invasion of Kuwait ultimately triggered the Gulf War.
1990 - 1991
1990
In 1990 Saddam Hussein ordered Iraqi troops to invade the sovereign nation of Kuwait to plunder its wealth, oil was involved in an indirect way in that most of the Kuwaiti wealth was due to oil production. But the world stepped in when an aggressive dictatorship invaded an established nation with the purpose of seizing its land and resources. Upon their eviction by the allied troops in 1991, the Iraqis set much of the oil fields ablaze causing an eco disaster of global proportions.
Saddam Hussein.
Kuwait