The Persian Gulf War

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thought they were ingrates and
were ungrateful for defending the Arab emirs from the Iranian Islamic
fundamentalism. The Arab emirs were afraid that the Islamic fundamentalists
would rise against the government and eventually take over the government
as they had Iran against the Shah. Kuwait was also afraid of this and so
they supported the Iraqi Arabs against the Iranian Persians.

2"Iraq",World Book (New York, World Book, 1990), Vol 10, p. 260
The funds that Gulf countries lent to Iraq were used to buy high tech
weapons, high tech weapons that made Iraq one of the largest armies in the
world and a force to contend with. "Ironically much of the money and
weapons came from the countries that united to fight against him."1 The
Gulf countries bankrolled him while the Western nations, who had many
defense contractors going out of business because of the end of the Cold
War, supplied him with the weapons to fight Iran and later Kuwait and the
Coalition. With a large army like ...

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"The Ottoman Empire was defeated during World War
I and the British made their "own lines in the sand", dividing up the land
according to their own strategic needs and in the process recklessly
dividing up ancient communities and boundaries that had been recognized for
decades."1 Most of Mesopotamia became Iraq and some other parts to Kuwait.
In 1961, Kuwait became independent and the Iraqis threatened to invade
except that British troops kept the peace. This was to be the first of many
border skirmishes which include Iraqi missiles fired at Kuwaiti oil
installations and the reflagging of Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-
Iraq War in which U.S. ships patrolled the Persian Gulf ...

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