![]() ![]() I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late 1960s. “But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. Saddam reiterated his commitment to peace in the region, so long as the Kuwaitis agree to meet OPEC production standards. ![]() President Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq was April Glaspie, who, in a meeting with the Iraqi dictator, stressed to him that the U.S. Saddam thought the United States gave him the okay to invade Kuwait. Even so, Iraq’s Air Force was large but weak and its Navy was “virtually nonexistent.” 3. Iraq conscripted three fourths of men between ages 15 and 49. After the Gulf War started, he concluded Iraq’s peace with Iran and raised his occupying force levels to 300,000. ![]() Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait with 120,000 of these and 2,000 tanks. It’s true, Iraq’s armed forces boasted more than a million men in uniform in 1991, but only a third of those were skilled professional fighting forces. In 1991, Iraq had the fifth largest army in the world. Since Iraq’s economy depended on oil sales, Saddam hoped to repay its debts by raising the price of oil through OPEC oil production cuts, but instead, Kuwait increased production and repeatedly produced more than its quota, lowering prices in an attempt to leverage a better resolution of its border dispute with Iraq. This also makes Saddam Hussein the first person to think of an idea before the Simpsons. ![]()
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