CAS IR 573 Lecture 48: International Law - Iran Iraq War
12 May 2019
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From kuwait point of view, they had given loans and iraq would repay them. Now, after the saddam s overthrow, iraq is now repaying. And can hussein be excused for misreading western attitude. April 1990: famous politician alex simpson goes to bagdad and reassures hussein that it is the media that he has a problem with and not us government. This is at a time when famous terrorists abu nidal and abu return to live in iraq. April 1990: representative in washington howard burman introduces a bill in the foreign affairs committee that would ban the export of technology and weapon to iraq. A week before this, the american ambassador to iraq had talked to. Hussein and maintained a neutral opinion on the iran-iraq war and with the conflict over kuwait and that the issue was not in relation with. In other words, this was given as a green light to invading.
