Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

IRAQ'S HISTORY
...In July 1988, Iran accepted the terms of UN Resolution 598, and the cease-fire in its war with Iran came into force on 20th August 1988. Before Iraq had a chance to recover economically, it was once more plunged into war, this time with its invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
The invasion was the result of a long-standing territorial dispute. Iraq accused Kuwait of violating the Iraqi border to secure oil resources, (on July 17, 1990 Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates of flooding the world oil market. In addition, he singled out Kuwait for the production of oil from a disputed supply, the Rumaila oil field), and demanded that its debt repayments should be waived. Direct negotiations were begun in July 1990, but they were destined soon to fail; along with reassurance from the United States making a claim that they would not get involved (click here to read what the United States Ambassador said to Saddam Hussein. This is remarkable stuff.). This was the go ahead that Hussein needed....