His aim was apparently to take control Kuwait's oil reserves (despite its small size Kuwait is a huge oil producer; it has about 10 per cent of the world's oil reserves ). Iraq accused Kuwait, and also the United Arab Emirates, of breaking agreements that limit oil production in the Middle East. ... Furthermore, Hussein claimed that Kuwait had illegally pumped oil from the Iraqi oil field of Rumaila and otherwise conspired to reduce Iraq's essential oil income. ...

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The White House says we should invade Iraq to keep Saddam Hussein from using weapons of mass destruction. But, during the 1990s UN weapons inspectors dismantled all of Iraq's major chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons facilities and destroyed nearly all of Iraq's weapons and long-range missiles. ... We should not wage a war for oil. ... Oil. Iraq has the second largest proven reserves of petroleum, and US oil companies, which exercise immense influence over the current administration, are eager to tap into Iraqi oil, which is wrong. ...

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Defiant to treaties made after the "Gulf War-, Iraq has continued to stockpile weapons of mass destruction. ... Hussein's régime biological weapons have been created and even tested on his own people. ... Hussein is put to death, so he will not hesitate to put his weapons to global use. ... It is claimed that a war with Iraq is a ploy to control the world's oil supply, never has a more laughable claim been made. Not once has the President nor any of his staff made any claims about a concern over the control of oil in the middle east. ...

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Insofar as "no blood for oil," it is the stated goal of the Bush administration to allow Iraq to retain control of its oil deposits, without the US being involved. ... It should be noted as well that the US had the opportunity to claim Iraqi oil fields in 1991, and chose not to. ... Also, resultant of an effort to devestate America's economy, what is preventing Hussein from supplying terrorist organizations with chemical or biological weapons? ... In a famous example, UN inspectors were alerted in 1995 to extremely high quantities of previously unsuspected weapons programs being de...

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He also stated to his people after first day of offensive they gunned down 60 aircraft allied forces only reported 8 He also used some dirty tactics in the war dumped 200,000 barrels a day into the Persian Gulf creating the worst ever oil related ecological disaster the spill spanned 240 sq. mi. ... He has a large army again and has even threatened to use them again Oct. 1994 he mounted 64,000 troops including 2 republican guards on the Kuwaiti boarder to the UN it looked as if we were going to war again but it was just a threat UN search teams have not found all his weapons o...

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That tells us that just by elementary logic the crimes can't be the reason why we have to destroy the monster." p.67 The U.S. is toying with Iraq to have complete and free control over Iraq's number one resource: oil. ... Robertson which questions the right of the dominant party, we can gather that the English troops in occupied Egypt were forced to deal with security problems of the weapons of mass destruiction caliber. "There is indeed a way to eliminate the capability of producing weapons of mass destruction, only one way and that is the Carthaginian solution: you totally d...

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Fifty-eight Iraqis were captured after the attacks and U.S. troops seized a considerable number of weapons from a minivan fleeing the area, the military said. ... There was an explosion and huge fire along a pipeline carrying crude oil from the oil fields near Kirkuk to Iraq's largest refinery at Beiji, the U.S. military said Thursday in Tikrit. ...

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He also took over the vast quantities of oil. ... Small groups of police and civilians armed with rifles fired at the Iraqi troops, but their weapons were no matches for the armored tanks that blasted at anything that moved. ... Next, Bush banned all oil imports from Iraq and trade. ...

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