American Secretary of State James Baker organized an anti-Iraq coalition of 34 countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, Netherlands, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. In this war, the US military accounted for 74% of the 660,000 troops. Many allies are reluctant to participate. Some people think that this war is an intra-Arab war, while others are afraid that the influence of the United States in Kuwait will be strengthened. Finally, many countries agreed to participate under preferential conditions such as economic assistance and debt relief.
The United States put forward a series of reasons for joining the war. The first is the importance of oil to the American economy and the long-term friendly relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia. But some Americans are not satisfied with this reason. They called for "don't exchange blood for oil", which later became the slogan of American peace organizations, but the number of people who participated in this peace movement was far less than those who opposed the Vietnam War. Later, the reasons for joining the war were Iraq's contempt for human rights under the rule of President Saddam Hussein, Iraq's possible construction of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, and Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, all of which could not be ignored.
Shortly after the occupation of Kuwait, an organization called "Free Kuwaiti Citizens" was established in the United States. The organization started a propaganda war with the Kuwaiti government's 1 1 million dollars. One of the most likely schemes to deceive people is that Iraqi soldiers throw Kuwaiti babies out of the incubator and let them die on the hospital floor. This episode appeared in the hearing of Iraq's atrocities in Kuwait reported by a number of American television stations held by the US Congress. At this hearing, the 15-year-old girl who told this story was later proved to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States and a member of the royal family.
Some peace proposals failed to materialize. The United States insists that the only possible condition for peace is Iraq's complete and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait. Iraq insists that the conditions for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait are the withdrawal of multinational forces from Arab territories and the simultaneous withdrawal of Syria and Israel from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and southern Lebanon.
On June199165438+10/2, the US Congress authorized the army to expel Iraq from Kuwait, and other countries in the coalition also authorized their troops shortly thereafter.