HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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gain access to more oil
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they believed Saddam still had WMDs
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Terrorist attacks on 9/11
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They wanted to help their government be an autocracy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -"They were worried about Iran getting control of Iraq after the fall of Saddam’s regime."
Detailed explanation-2: -Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait with the apparent aim of acquiring that nation’s large oil reserves, canceling a large debt Iraq owed Kuwait, and expanding Iraqi power in the region.
Detailed explanation-3: -Reasons for opposition Critics of the invasion claimed that it would lead collateral damage to deaths of thousands of Iraqi civilians and soldiers as well as Coalition soldiers, and that it would moreover damage peace and stability throughout the region and the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -The invasion’s purpose, according to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, was to blunt the edge of Iranian Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini’s movement and thwart his attempts to export Iran’s Islamic Revolution to Saddam’s secular Iraq and the Persian Gulf states.