War in Iraq

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This paper argues that U.S. motivations for entering Iraq and leading a war against that country were entirely self-motivated. The paper posits that the war in Iraq was initiated to secure U.S. access to the vast oil fields there and so the U.S. could establish military bases on Iraqi soil. U.S. involvement there, according to this paper, was anything but humanitarian.

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"The conflict between Iraq and a coalition of thirty-four nations led by the United States of America is generally referred to as the 'Persian Gulf War', the 'Gulf War', the 'War in the Gulf', the 'Iraq Kuwaiti Conflict', the UN Iraq Conflict', the Desert Storm', the '1990 Gulf War', and so on. The war started when Iraq invaded Kuwait during the month of August 1990. When this happened, the immediate result was that of the passing of various economic sanctions on the part of the UN, or the United Nations, against Iraq. By the month of January 1991, hostilities had commenced in full swing, and what resulted was a complete victory for the coalition forces, which in turn forced Iraq out of Kuwait, albeit with a minimum of coalition deaths. The main battle was with Iraq, Kuwait, and certain bordering areas, including Saudi Arabia."

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