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Originally Posted by mirevolver
Saddam also had a history of invading his neighbors, Iran, Kuwait. And the Kuwaitis put their full support behind the US going into Iraq.
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The Iran war was a US-USSR conflict fought by proxy, and the US didn't exactly do much to prevent the first Iraq war:
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html
"But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait" is basically "go and invade if you want to"
It's no surprise that Kuwait would support the US, getting revenge by proxy!