Reply #54: slant drilling was an excuse--he owed Kuwait billions of $$$

[Zuni]

Saddam believed that kuwait was a province of Iraq, because they had been in the same district of the ottoman empire. He intended to annex it.
Second, Iraq owed Kuwait and Saudi Arabia tens of billions of dollars and was in terrible financial shape after the Iran-Iraq war. Kuwait loaned him billions upon billions of dollars during the war and he was not attempting to pay them back. So by your logic, the slant drilling was justified by saddam's massive debt.
Third, he wanted to create a pan-Arab state under himself, just like that of Baathist and Nasserist philosophy.
Four---He wanted to dominate the world oil market.