Political policy for sale is what i meant by "Blair ethics" , Saddam was burning the worlds currency so make it stop by whatever means and we will make the richest ex PM in Britain's history .
Going all the way back to desert storm, The whole thing was a sham.
Saddam had been given tacit approval by the US to invade kuwait via its ambassador who med Hussein 8 days before the invasion of Kuwait.
On July 31, 1990, two days before the Iraqi invasion, John Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, testified to Congress that the
"United States has no commitment to defend Kuwait and the US has no intention of defending Kuwait if it is attacked by Iraq."
once they did invade the whole propaganda machine started to go into overtime. (Google the Iraqi soldiers stealing incubators from a hospital as the classic example.)
Now once the Iraqi's took Kuwait the Americans terrified the Saudi lot into thinking they were next.
They showed them satellite photo's of huge brigades of Iraqi troops massing on the Saudi border (They weren't of course) This allowed US bases to be constructed in Saudi which are there to this day and gave the US a stranglehold for extracting oil and supplying weapons along with huge kickbacks for the middlemen.
War is profit ... they wouldn't fight them if they werent profitable.
