controlling iraq's oil
Created By: boatsie
Last Modified: 04/08/08
Summary: OPEC caps Iraqs oil production ... Kuwait slant drills... Iraq invades ... and on and on ..Oil for Food
In August 1990, Kuwait's craven siphoning of borderland oil fields jointly
owned with Iraq gave Saddam the excuse to take Kuwait's share. Here was Saddam's
opportunity to increase Iraq's OPEC quota by taking Kuwait's (most assuredly
not approved by the U.S.). Saddam's plan backfired. The Basra oil fields not
crippled by Iran were demolished in 1991 by American B-52s. Saddam's petro-military
overreach into Kuwait gave the West the authority for a more direct oil suppression
method called the "Sanctions" program, later changed to "Oil
for Food."
From:
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/61/20480
