USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Indeed, oil was driving force behind the invasion and would lead to U.S. military involvement. “The fundamental U.S. interest in the security of the Persian Gulf is oil, ” Paul Wolfowitz, under secretary of defense for policy in the George H. W. Bush administration, told Defense Secretary Dick Cheney.

Detailed explanation-2: -The war helped create an acute humanitarian crisis in Iraq, and the United States struggled to find a way to contain a still recalcitrant Saddam Hussein while alleviating the suffering of innocent Iraqis.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait A day later Kuwait was accused of stealing oil from the Al-Rumaylah oil field, which straddles the border between Iraq and Kuwait. As criticism mounted, talks between the two countries in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, broke down on August 1.

Detailed explanation-4: -The release of 11 million barrels of crude oil into the Arabian Gulf during the 1991 Gulf War resulted in the largest oil spill in history. Maximum oil was transported to the south along the shoreline, where bulk of floating oil got trapped behind Abu Ali Island, and north of Jubail, Saudi Arabia.