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Originally Posted by jamesqf
That was due to Saddam Hussein's desire for conquest. Now he might not have been blind to the fact tha Kuwait had those oil wells, and that (if his conquest had been successful) he could use the revenue from them to fund further conquests, but the war wasn't FOR the oil.
There's a big difference between saying that oil is not a factor at all, and saying that the war is FOR the oil, or primarily about oil. Claiming that it is makes you look as though you're ignorant of fourteen centuries of history, Middle Eastern politics of the last half century, and the tenets of one of the world's major religions.
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Saddam was acutely aware of the oil in Kuwait, control of those oil fields was the express reason for crossing into Kuwait...
And I'll choose to exclude myself from the second quote, other than to agree with your quote.