ScionShade wrote:
I don't know what it was for the Brits. The U.S. had the majority of the population screaming ""DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!"", and all the battle plans hatched out for invading Iraq just laying around, and evidence of training camps, plus 8 years of Clinton assuring us that Hussein did not destroy his wmd....sooooooo.
The Hussein problem started with the 1990 invasion of Kuwait - which lead to the first War on Terror in Iraq and the tension in the ranks of the Taliban.
The Taliban tension was a result of the Ayatolla Chomeini leaving his exile in France to take over the power in Iran, which happened a few years before the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.
The Kuwait were important to the USA because of the Q8 oil fields.
The Iran Ayatolla problem was a pact between France, Germany and the USA to gain power back in the Middle East, but it sort of back fired, when the strickter religious regimes got more and more power.
Everything after that is a spin off of those days and those actions.
Hussein got the support from France and the USA in the fight against the upcomming regimes of the Talliban and the Ayatolla's in Iran. That is why he was not taken down in the first Gulf War in 1991. They needed him still in that region.
If those problems were not about the Q8 oil fields, then why did Sadam Hussein set fire to all the oil fields in the Kuweit at the end of the first Gulf War in 1991?????