They returned to Iraq when they were promised that Saddam Hussein would them | On , , coalition of U |
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He spent six months in | was making Iraq into its client state, embarrassing a strongman who had sought to define and dominate Arab |
Saddam was afraid that radical Islamic ideas were quickly spreading inside his country among most of the Shi'ite people | The Iranians, hoping to bring down Saddam's non-religious government and start a Shi'ite in Iraq, refused a cease-fire until |
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At the time, Saddam's regime was not disliked by most of the world | However, the war was more likely an attempt by Saddam - supported by both the and the - to have Iraq stop radical revolutions like the one in Iran from spreading any further |
In his to the , President Bush said that Iraq, Iran, and were an ".
officials tried to take a calm, relaxing tone with Iraq | At 10, Saddam ran away from the family to return to live with his uncle, who was a devout Muslim, in |
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The main reason for the invasion was President claim that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction | In , Hussein was for his because he was a |
The invasion of Kuwait gave Iraq, with its own substantial oil fields, control of 20 percent of the oil.
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