HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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Iraq invaded Kuwait again.
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Iraq was harboring those responsible for 9/11.
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Iraq invaded Saudi Arabia threatening oil supply.
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Saddam Hussein was thought to have Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, and programs to develop such weapons, posed a “threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region". Iraq’s “brutal repression of its civilian population".
Detailed explanation-2: -In the late 1980’s Saddam Hussein launched a large-scale chemical weapons attack against Iraq’s Kurdish population killing thousands. Former UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Max Van der Stoel’s report in April 1998 stated that Iraq had executed at least 1, 500 people during the previous year for political reasons.
Detailed explanation-3: -Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait to acquire the nation’s large oil reserves, cancel a large debt Iraq owed Kuwait, and expand Iraqi power in the region.
Detailed explanation-4: -U.S. President George W. Bush argued that the vulnerability of the United States following the September 11 attacks of 2001, combined with Iraq’s alleged continued possession and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction and its support for terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda, justified the U.S.’s war with Iraq.