"Sum Guy" <Sum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:47E11FDC.5F6C198B@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Straydog wrote:
>
>> > ... to victory in the Gulf war that Arabs were made to pay,
>>
>> Kuwait was happy to pay the US to do the dirty work of kicking
>> Saddam-- doing even more dirty work-- out of Kuwait.
>
> Remember that Saddam basically got the US's permission to invade
> Kuwait, which would allow the US to "rescue" them (as long as they
> paid for it). It got the US a foothold in Kuwait (some military
> bases) and it started the first phase of controlling Iraq's oil (some
> say it should have been the only phase, but Bush 1 didn't go all the
> way). By allowing Saddam to invade Kuwait (by giving him the wrong
> signal that they wouldn't interfere) the US also established a
> military presence in Saudi Arabia - by convincing SA that Saddam was
> massing tanks on their border (the US showed SA fake satellite
> photos). The 20k troops continuously stationed in SA eventually
> became an im****tant psycological driver for the 9/11 attacks (infidels
> in the land of Meca).
>
> Iraq invaded Kuwait because Kuwait was threatening to have all of
> Iraq's foreign assets frozen because Kuwait wanted Iraq to pay back
> all the money lent during the Iran-Iraq war. During that war, Iraq's
> oil infrastructure collapsed and Iraq handed it's OPEC oil quotas to
> Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and in exchange was lent the money that
> resulted from that extra oil production. Note that under current US
> puppet control that Iraq is not a member of OPEC, and the US will use
> this position strategically against SA and the OPEC group once Iraq is
> in a position to pump it's massive oil reserves.
>
> What ultimately led to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was (1) Russia had
> just a week or two previously signed a $40b agreement to get Iraq's
> oil infrastructure up and running, and (2) the UN sanctions against
> Iraq were set to soon be lifted and (3) it was the plan all along to
> control Iraq's oil. Oil is the one commodity that the US will not
> tolerate being in control of others, a doctrine established by the
> "dovish" Jimmy Carter (see "Carter Doctrine").
Nice work of Science Fiction.
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