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…Crisis) because of the self-interest of its members. The League of Nations inaction is being repeated by the United Nations (UN). This can be seen from the recent Iraqi War. The United States had bypassed the UN and went on to invade Iraq with the reason…

…of civilization. Kuwait is a modern and new country, very wealthy because of its oil, but very vulnerable to its more aggressive neighbors like Iraq. Both have different realities facing them in today's complicated world stage, and their foreign policies reflect…

…TABLE OF CONTENTS ¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾ TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 1 PREFACE 2 2 IRAQ’S OFFENSIVE AGAINST KUWAIT: REASONS, MEANS AND STRATEGY 4 2.1. SADDAM HUSSEIN’S REASONS 4 2.2. BUILDING UP HIS MILITARY EQUIPMENT…

…was viewed as a shock and the United Nations Security Council soon passed twelve resolutions which condemned the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Iraq had just come off of a successful victory against neighboring Iran that spanned eight years which the United States…

…are able or allowed to do. This has been the practice since recognized states or principalities began to interact with one another. If sovereignty was in fact absolute as proposed by many, how is it that Iraq is presently under the political, military…

…the midterm election. Democrats had hoped to focus the congressional campaign on the economy and other domestic matters, but it was dominated by discussion of national security issues, especially the Bush administration's contention that Iraq was developing nuclear…

…the Gulf States, particularly the oil-rich states of Kuwait, followed by Saudi Arabia, Saddam aimed for the establishment of Iraq as the dominant power in the Gulf as leader in the oil market and for the alleviation of economic difficulties. This, in addition…

…, simply because his actions leading up to and during the war clearly portray the mind of a man whom the US and other countries do not want on this planet. In 1979, Hussein seized control of Iraq and killed off 21 of his cabinet members , setting a tone…

…dealings with Iraq, to press the Democrats to accept the White House version of a Department of Homeland Security (and hammer them if they opposed it) and to deploy both issues to burnish the president's popularity to the GOP faithful, to whom Bush would appeal…

…in modern battlefield, but also showed the importance of psychological warfare. Psychological warfare had definitely detrimental and beneficial effects on both sides through out this war. Before the battle was broken out in Iraq, Psychological warfare had…