[dennisw]

Looks like permission to me. Saddam had a long standing beef with the Kuwait smart asses. They were slant drilling under the border into a major Iraqi oil reservoir.

[dfwgator]

They were slant drilling under the border into a major Iraqi oil reservoir.

"I drink your milkshake!"

[Lurker]

“ Looks like permission to me.”

So you and Saddam had something in common then.

To me it looks like ambiguous. “We have no interest in the literally hundreds of border squabbles in every corner of our he globe.” The unsaid part of that is “unless it affects American interests” which invading and subjugating an entire sovereign country which supplies a product vital to Western economies most certainly did.

Saddam was an arrogant narcissistic murderer who thought he was untouchable.

He chose poorly.

Whatever the details he was not “tricked” into invading Kuwait. His own hubris did that.

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