Wednesday, November 17, 2010
No messin arround when it comes to $
In the article at http://www.brucekelly.com/saddam-hussein-kuwait.html you will read about why Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. I think that this was an imperialistic move on Iraqs part. They were not provoked, they just decided to invade and tried to take control of the small border country. In the article you read diffrent reasons why Iraq commited this act of imperialism. Two of which are that they wanted Kuwait to forgive the debt that Iraq owed them, and two they thought that Kuwait was pumping oil that was part of Iraqi soil and not sharing the profit and pumping more than their quota establised by OPEC. This was deffinatly an economic imperialistic move and it ended up being a bad move also. The outcome of this war was that Iraq was pushed back and Kuwait was safe,
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