Iceweasel
Diamond Member
But you are limited on facts so you're not in a position to say.As usual the puppets from the party of liars distorts the truth. Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq. They got caught and wouldn't pony up reparations. The US Ambassador to Iraq gave Saddam the green light. Iraq was 100% justified in settling accounts with the thieving Kuwaitis but as usual the Jews got their dirty hands in it and screamed like the little bitches that they are. The Saudis took the side of the Kuwaitis also because they are related. We had NO business getting involved. It WAS a Bush blunder. It was illegal and immoral to get our troops involved. The Iraq invasion of Kuwait would have stopped at Kuwait borders but we will never know will we. We certainly didn't get all upset when Iraq and Iran were going at it. So saying that the invasion of Kuwait was a disruption of peace in the Mideast was shear bullshit. We had no business defending Kuwait.
CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF - The Oilfield Lying Below the Iraq-Kuwait Dispute - NYTimes.com
CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF
CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF; The Oilfield Lying Below the Iraq-Kuwait Dispute
Published: September 3, 1990
(Page 2 of 2)
Some Middle East experts dismiss Iraq's complaints about Kuwait's ac tivities in the Rumaila field. They say Mr. Hussein has voiced these and other charges to justify a long-held desire to plunder Kuwait's financial wealth and give his nearly landlocked country con trol of more than 200 miles of Persian Gulf coastline.
'Only a Smokescreen'
''The issue of oil taken from the Rumaila field is only a smokescreen to disguise Iraq's more ambitious inten tions,'' said Marvin Zonis, a professor of political economy at the University of Chicago's Graduate Business School. ''The Iraqis will claim anything to jus tify the incorporation of Kuwait.''
Some Iraqi officials have accused Kuwait in the past of using advanced drilling techniques developed by Amer ican oilfield specialists to siphon oil from the Rumaila field, a charge that American drillers deny, noting that the oil flows easily from the Rumaila field without any need for these techniques.
The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, with headquarters in London, acquired American drilling expertise when it bought the Santa Fe International Cor poration in 1981 for $2.4 billion. Santa Fe, based in Alhambra, Calif., has separate divisions that specialize in oil field drilling and rig operations, pri marily in offshore areas around the world, as well as in exploration and production, mostly in the Gulf of Mexi co, Texas and Louisiana.
Six American Workers
John J. Mika, Santa Fe's vice presi dent of administration, said six Santa Fe employees, all Americans, were among the oil workers captured by Iraqi troops in the early moments of the Aug. 2 invasion. All of the men were believed taken to Baghdad, he added.
The Santa Fe employees worked on several rigs ''immediately adjacent'' to the Iraqi border, Mr. Mika said. He added that he was unaware of any well that might have utilized the ''slant'' drilling technique along the Iraqi bor der.
W. C. Goins, senior vice president of OGE Drilling Inc., a Houston company that provided oilfield supervisors and workers for Kuwait in the same area, said he was ''positive'' all of the wells his employees drilled and operated ran vertically down to the Rumaila pay zone. ''That field crosses the border in north Kuwait,'' he added. ''Iraqis were drilling on one side, and Kuwaitis on the other side.''