invasion of kuwait

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in 1990 iraq invaded its neighboring country of Kuwait. They did it for two reasons: economic and political. First, economic: Iraq was almost bankrupt and needed money. Kuwait is very rich and has a lot of oil. Iraq was mad at Kuwait for charging less for oil and was then making a lot more money selling oil than Iraq which was hurting Iraq's economy. Second, the political reason was Iraq said Kuwait wasn't really a country--that Great Britian had wrongly created it after World War II. Iraq said Kuwait was part of their kingdom in ancient and modern times and belonged to them. So Sadaam Hussein, the leader of Iraq then tried to enlarge the political boundaries of Iraq to make his country stronger and the leader in the middle east.

So in August 1990, Iraq bombed Kuwait and moved more than 30,000 troops into the country to try to take them over. Saddam Hussein was the leader of Iraq then and it was part of his plan to be imperialistic--to use military power to take over another country. Iraq was stronger in their military and would have been able to win if the US hadn't blocked the invasion later.