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Originally Posted by Rochard
Funny, but I don't recall Iraq getting permission from the UN to invade Kuwait in 1991.
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You are right.... They got a tacit silent permission from the USA tough ...
( I have the video of it in DVD, really don't feel like getting it in divx, since no one will watch it ...)
At that time, Kuwait was pumping way more oil then it was supposed to... ( yes, oil , the key word ).
For every dollar that the oil was dropping in price on the market, Iraq was losing a billion dollar...
Saddam needed that money to repay for his war with Iran ( main creditor was the USA )...
So a meeting was setup, and the USA sort of said that they wouldn't interfer ...
Don't kid yourself ... why the hell would the UN and/or the US intervene ... to save a few camel jockeys, as you call them ... They don't intervene in Darfour, didn't in Rwanda, wont in Ethiopia/Somalia ...
This Iraq thing goes back to the day when Iraq was a CLOSE alley of the Soviet Union, pissing off the USA... Saddam then came ....