Persian War
The Persian Gulf War was just one in a string of wars in and near the region. On September 1980, Iraq launched a major war against Iran. This war went on until1988, and proved one of the deadliest of the century. The war had over a million casualties. And in many ways, this war set the stage for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Iraqi's had a defendant reason to invade Kuwait. One reason is Iraq claimed that Kuwait was pumping oil from a field that straddled the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border and was not sharing the revenue. Secondly, Iraq also accused Kuwait of producing more oil than allowed under quotas set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), thereby depressing the price of oil, Iraq's main export. Iraq's disputes against Kuwait grew rapidly, but Iraq was mostly about money and did not suggest that they were about to revive its land claim to KuwaitThe Iraqi attack began shortly after midnight on August 2, 1990. "It attacked all nations that depended on oil at reasonable price that feared weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a br
utal dictator who never met a weapon he did not use."(Yetiv 4) About 150,000 Iraqi troops easily plagued the unsuspecting and inexperienced Kuwaiti forces, which numbered about 20,000. A number of hours had past and the Iraqi troops had complete control over Kuwait and its Capital and were soon to be in complete control of the country. As the war went on, Iraq installed a puppet government, which consists of nine hand picked military officers whose origin is not altogether clear. And this puppet government replaced the ruling Kuwaiti al-Sabah family. Then shortly after the United Nations Security Council and the Arab League immediately condemned the Iraqi invasion. "On august 8 1990 Iraq annexed Kuwait as it's nineteenth province as if this were a common practice in the world politics, and by august 24, had ordered all counties to close their embassies in Kuwait."(Yetiv 11) Later a large international force gathered in Saudi Arabia. The United States sent more than 400,000 troops, and more than 200,000 additional troops came from Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, France, Kuwait and o
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