[USMMA_83]

Iraq has always existed. Kuwait, on the other hand was carved out of Iraq prior to the Brits leaving the Arabian lands.

[darth]

Wrong. All of this territory was part of the Ottoman Empire for over 400 years prior to WWI. The Al Sabah family settled the previously empty area of Kuwait and ran it for the Ottomans starting in 1830. The "19th province of Iraq" b.s. is Iraqi propaganda. Go look at an atlas that pre-dates WWI and see what I mean. The Brits and French carved up the Ottoman Empire after they won the war and set all of the modern boundaries for a bunch of countries that had not previously existed.