1978 July 17, 43-year-old Saddam Hussein took office as Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Committee and President of Iraq. After Saddam took office, he pursued the following national policies: developing economy, punishing corruption, launching education, revitalizing agriculture, pro-Soviet and anti-American, and being an enemy of Israel. At the same time, Saddam Hussein has a powerful? Great Iraqi doctrine? Ideal, fantasize that you are the ruler side by side with the great King Hammurabi of Babylon and King Nebuchadnezzar II of New Babylon. He plans to unify the Middle East in 50 years and become 22 Arab countries by himself? Leadership? . Saddam's dictatorship is mainly manifested in family politics: the eldest son Hussein? Kamal served as Minister of Oil and Minister of Industry and Military Industry, and his half-brother Ezzat? Ibrahim is the vice chairman of the Revolutionary Committee, and his cousin Adnan? Heilala is the minister of national defense and the head of military security, and his son Uday is the head of the intelligence department. His elite troops and members of the National Guard are from his hometown of tikrit.
1September 22, 1980, Saddam Hussein sent 10 divisions,10/0000 men, 1500 tanks, and more than 300 planes to launch a large-scale attack on Iran, which detonated? Iran-Iraq war? A dozen is eight years. 1August 20, 988, both Iraq and Iraq lost. With the consent of Saddam Hussein and Iranian religious leader Khomeini, the two countries formally realized a ceasefire. This article made no mention of the cause and effect of the war. The end result is that Iraq, which had 30 billion US dollars of foreign exchange reserves before the war, was reduced to the last few years, relying entirely on the charity of rich people such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. At the end of the war, the debt was $80-6543.8+00 billion, and the national economy was depressed. The Iran-Iraq war caused Iraq to owe Kuwait $654.38+05 billion, which also became the foreshadowing for Iraq to invade Kuwait in order to get rid of the economic crisis in the future.
Kuwait is a small country in the northwest of the Persian Gulf, located between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, with an area of/kloc-0.8 million square kilometers. The whole area is desert, and there are no rivers or lakes. Kuwait's population is less than 6.5438+0.9 million, and Iraq is a giant before it. The Sabah family was founded in 1756? Kuwait Emirates? The ancestors of Sabah, Saudi Arabia and Khalifa, the rulers of Kuwait, are the most powerful tribe in Arabia, An Zai. Comparatively speaking, Saddam Hussein was only born in poverty, and his struggle with Kuwait turned into a struggle with Arab aristocratic families from the beginning. In all countries in the Middle East, eldest brother, not to mention second brother, is basically family rule. 1961June19, Kuwait broke away from the British colony and declared its independence.
There are seven oil fields in Kuwait? Burghain, Magwa, Lauzatan, Subia, Ahmadi, Minakish and Umm? Ghoder Oilfield contains 94 billion barrels of oil, accounting for 9% of the world's reserves, ranking fourth in the world after Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates.
Iraq and Kuwait once had a special historical connection in history, that is, they were both annexed by the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Therefore, Iraq insists that Kuwait was once a part of Iraq. In the late period of the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq obtained a top secret information: three super-large oil-bearing structural layers in Kuwait are connected with the oil-bearing structural layers underground in Iraq, and Kuwait oil field has the lowest terrain, which can exploit crude oil flowing out of Iraq oil field. In addition, Iraq has only one 50-kilometer-long seaport in the Persian Gulf, while there are Bubiyan Island and Warbah Island off the coast of Kuwait. If Iraq owns these two islands, the seaport can be expanded to 2 13 km. All these made Saddam have the ambition to annex Kuwait.