Thirty years ago, Iraq invaded Kuwait

[Michael Corleone]

What did I just read LMFAO!

yeah... that happened

 

[Michael Corleone]

Saddam was a moron he made three very big blunder(s):

1) Should have withdrawn when told, signed a deal with Kuwait and got compensation from them and they would've paid anything to get back to their harems.

2) Killed of his top officers and experiences staff after the Iran-Iraq War because they were getting famous within the ranks. (This is a talent all Muslim countries have in fact to kill of your cream of the crop)

3) Preemptive Strike: Knowing your refusal to withdraw would result in a war, how can you sit around for a month watching the build up happen across your border? He should have struck and caused as much material damage as possible and killed as many allied troops as possible before going down. Even Hitler would've congratulated him in the after life.

compare him with stalin, not hitler... the blunders are similar

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Thirty years ago, Iraq invaded Kuwait

AFP

July 30, 2020

In this file photo taken on April 2, 1991, an abandoned Iraqi Soviet-made T-62 tank sits in the Kuwaiti desert as an oil well at al-Ahmadi oil field is burning in the background.

PARIS: On August 2, 1990, the army of Saddam Hussein swarmed into neighboring Gulf emirate Kuwait, annexing the small oil-rich territory.

Seven months later, Iraq was chased out by a US-led international coalition, leaving behind a devastated and pillaged Kuwait, and 750 oil wells ablaze.

Here is a recap of the conflict and its aftermath:

On July 18, 1990, tensions spiral after Iraq accuses Kuwait of stealing petrol from the Rumaila oil field and encroaching on its territory.

Saddam demands $2.4 billion from the emirate.

Kuwait counters, saying Iraq is trying to drill oil wells on its territory.

It is one of several disputes, the most complex involving their border — a bone of contention since Kuwait’s independence in 1961.

Iraq also accuses the emirate of flooding the oil market, driving down crude prices.

Attempts by the Arab League and Saudi Arabia to mediate an end to the crisis fail and talks are suspended on August 1.

The next day, Iraq invades.

“Iraqi troops began at 2 a.m. local time to violate our northern borders, to enter Kuwait territory and to occupy positions within Kuwait,” Radio Kuwait announces in its first news bulletin.

It is followed by patriotic music and calls on Kuwaitis “to defend their land, their sand and their dunes.”

Violent clashes with heavy weaponry break out in Kuwait City between Kuwaiti units and the Iraqi army.

Faced with 100,000 Iraqi troops and 300 tanks, the 16,000-strong Kuwaiti army is overwhelmed.

The capital falls that morning and Kuwait’s head of state Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah flees to Saudi Arabia.

His brother Fahd is killed as Iraqi troops seize the palace.

In Baghdad official radio announces the end of the “traitor regime” it accuses of being an accomplice in an “American Zionist plot,” aimed at undermining the recovery of the Iraqi economy.

The international community condemns the invasion and oil prices soared on world markets.

At an emergency meeting, the UN Security Council demands the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

Washington freezes Iraqi assets in the US and its subsidiaries abroad, along with Kuwaiti assets, to prevent them benefiting Baghdad.

The Soviet Union, Iraq’s main arms supplier, halts its deliveries.

On August 6, the UN Security Council slaps a trade, financial and military embargo on Iraq.
Two days later, the US president George H.W. Bush announces he is sending troops to Saudi Arabia.

Iraq closes its borders to foreigners. Thousands of western, Arab and Asian civilians are held against their will in Iraq or Kuwait, with some 500 people used for months as human shields at strategic sites.

On August 8, Baghdad announces Kuwait’s “total and irreversible” incorporation into Iraq.
Later in the month, Iraq annexes the emirate as its 19th province.

“Kuwait is part of Iraq,” Saddam declares.

On November 29, the UN Security Council authorizes the use of “all necessary means” to force Iraq out of Kuwait if it has not withdrawn its troops voluntarily by January 15, 1991.

Baghdad rejects the ultimatum.

On January 17, after diplomatic initiatives fail, Operation Desert Storm is launched with intensive bombardments of Iraq and Kuwait.

On February 24, Bush announces a ground offensive.

The allied troops free the emirate in days.

Bush announces on February 27 the liberation of Kuwait and the cessation of hostilities the next day, at 0400 GMT.

Iraq accepts all UN resolutions.

The crisis divides Arab states.

Egyptian and Syrian armies take part in the coalition, but it is denounced by other Arab countries.

More than a decade later, in 2003, Kuwait serves as a bridgehead for the US-led invasion of Iraq, which leads to the overthrow of Saddam.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1712066/middle-east

....................I remember it like it was about 2 years ago...........................time flies TOO FAST.........

 

[PakFactor]

What did I just read LMFAO!

I was laughing at that part had to read it 3x to make sure its saying what it said, lol.

 

[PakFactor]

compare him with stalin, not hitler... the blunders are similar

Very true, his personality did reflect more of Stalin.

 

[Michael Corleone]

I was laughing at that part had to read it 3x to make sure its saying what it said, lol.

you'll be surprised by the lootings that happened... one bengali who used to work low level tea boy job now is a multimillionaire and his sons drive bentley continental GT in kuwait... lives right next to sheraton... dad was offered half a pie for his help... dad didn't do it, since he's religious

 

[Deactivated]

you'll be surprised by the lootings that happened... one bengali who used to work low level tea boy job now is a multimillionaire and his sons drive bentley continental GT in kuwait... lives right next to sheraton... dad was offered half a pie for his help... dad didn't do it, since he's religious

harram money - best thing your dead could have done ... it would backslash at you

 

[Tom_Cruise]

Desert Storm proved to be one of the easiest military operations in modern history. Despite the claims this would be a long drawn out war, the Iraqis had little or no will to fight. Then again, after you've been bombed relentlessley for over a month, there won't be much fight left in you...

 

[PakFactor]

Desert Storm proved to be one of the easiest military operations in modern history. Despite the claims this would be a long drawn out war, the Iraqis had little or no will to fight. Then again, after you've been bombed relentlessley for over a month, there won't be much fight left in you...

That and they had not recovered from that useless war the Arab countries egged Saddam into waging for 8 years. That war degraded the Iraqi Military men, equipment and money.

 

[Michael Corleone]

harram money - best thing your dead could have done ... it would backslash at you

yeah, nothing worse than haram money. I thank my dad for the honest work...

 

[Michael Corleone]

Desert Storm proved to be one of the easiest military operations in modern history. Despite the claims this would be a long drawn out war, the Iraqis had little or no will to fight. Then again, after you've been bombed relentlessley for over a month, there won't be much fight left in you...

it's the arab mentality... prey on the weak... beg mercy from the powerful

 

[Trailer23]

We speak of 5th Gen Fighter Jet today, but the Gulf War was also the first time the World first heard of the Stealth Fighter (F-117 Nighthawk).

Back then, the Americans were already ahead of the game and were popping out elite jets like daisies.

The F-15 Eagle, the F-16 Falcon and even the F-18 Hornet.

Europe didn't have d!ck. What, the Mirage 2000 and that was it...

The British Tornado and the Harrier were past their prime - if that counts.

Once the F-117 came in the picture, it was clear as day that the rest of the World was decades behind the US in technology. Still is to present day.

Disney Land for Military enthusiasts

 

[Figaro]

That and they had not recovered from that useless war the Arab countries egged Saddam into waging for 8 years. That war degraded the Iraqi Military men, equipment and money.

Actually on the contrary, the Iraqi army was the 4th largest in the world in 1988. It was the strongest military in the Middle East by quite a bit.

 

[Deactivated]

I think the fall of Saddam was the worst thing that could happen to the middle east ... the chain reaction from all of this - the strengthening of Israel, the increasing attempts of separatism by the Kurds, etc. ...
Even Libya, the Arab spring, etc. - would not have happened in that form ... stability would have been the result

 

[PakFactor]

Actually on the contrary, the Iraqi army was the 4th largest in the world in 1988. It was the strongest military in the Middle East by quite a bit.

They were the biggest but were hollowed out after the Iran-Iraq War they started conscripting to build up their ranks with poorly trained soldiers, poorly trained technicians and engineers. Their air force lacked integration to work with the rest of their armed forces, they lost due to war or Saddam witch hunt their best pilots. He chose war way to soon.