>It is fairly clear that Saddam's
>original plan was not to stop at the borders of
>Kuwait but to keep going on down the coast
>of the Persian Gulf to get the really big pools of
>oil such as al-Ghawar in Saudi Arabia, then under
>the control of a reactionary power in cahoots
>with the United States.
If this was the case, why didn't Saddam keep going and take all of Saudi Arabia? And anything else in the region he wanted (other than Iran)?There was nothing in the way of the Iraqi army until 6 months after the initial invasion of Kuwait.
K. Mickey