Kuwait was the be blamed for the Gulf war, and is especially the cause of economic reasons resulting in the invasion of Kuwait.

Kuwait was unwilling to waive the debts that Iraq had borrowed from the Iraq-Iran war. Before the Iraq-Kuwait conflict took place, Iraq had a war with Iran, fighting against the Iranian government ideology that wanted the Middle East to be a Muslim region. During this war, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait had lent Iraq money for them to fight Iran. However, after the war ended, Iraq was left with a devastated economy. Originally, Kuwait refused to waive the war debt Iraq had taken from them, which left Iraq's economy in a poor state. Although they did waive the debts later on, Iraq's economy was so poor then that Iraq had to turn to the invasion of Kuwait in order to gain resources to sustain her economy. Hence, Kuwait was to be blamed for the conflict as Kuwait had originally refused to waive off the debts Iraq had taken for the Iraq-Iran war.

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Iraq's intent on invading Kuwait was to gain resources for its own benefits. After the 8 year Iran-Iraq war, Iraq's economy was suffering. Also, since Iraq was landlocked, they had very little resources. Sadam Hussein then resorted to invasion of other countries to gain resources. By invading Kuwait, Sadam could gain wealth and natural resources to solve its financial problems. Hence, Iraq was to be blamed for the Gulf war as they themselves wanted the resources from Kuwait to begin with.

Iraq should be blamed for the Gulf war. Iraq's economy was getting worse after the war with Iran and the war plunged Iraq into a deep financial crisis and debt which Saddam could not pay off. Since the sum was up to 400 billion, Saddam invaded Kuwait as Kuwait was full of resources and it was rich.

Saddam also wanted to lift his own national prestige by showing that he was a liberator. So he wanted to capture Kuwait so he could get funds to pay off the war debt and fund the reconstruction programme that he promised the Iraqi's after the war against Iran.

I feel that Kuwait was to be blamed although Iraq was the main aggressor.

Kuwait knew that Iraq was war-torn economically and yet over-produced oil (defying OPEC regulations). This made Iraq lose billions of dollars through their only marketable resource, oil.

Also, Kuwait wanted more land despite them committing to such acts. This led to increasing tension between Iraq and Kuwait. Sure enough, the Iraqis became paranoid too and blamed Kuwait for taking their oil in the Rumalia oil field through slant drilling.

Thus, Kuwait caused major tension between Iraq and Kuwait before the Gulf War actually began.

IRAQ WAS TO BLAME.

During the beginning of the invasion of Kuwait, Saddam advanced aggressively towards the Southern Border between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia with a large number of troops and tanks massing around the area. Hence this was way beyond Saddam's alleged claims of it being a personal confliction between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia but a bid to take over at least 50% of the world's oil supply and control over the region because Kuwait and Saudi Araba had small armies.

THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL gave SADDAM HUSSEIN a DEADLINE to WITHDRAW in 6 WEEKS, but he ignored it. Although he showed no signs of attack, he showed no interest to WITHDRAW. The world lost their patience while looking at Iraq unrightfully taking over Kuwait and conducting public executions and torturing it's people as it became common.

Iraq was to blame as it provoked Kuwait by refusing to recognize Kuwait's Independence and claimed that Kuwait was a part of Iraq. Iraq also accused Kuwait of stealing oil from the side which Iraqis claimed to be theirs and demanded compensation. Saddam Hussian also claimed that the Kuwaiti revolutionaries had written letter to him, seeking his help to overthrow the government. Saddam also latter ordered the troops to the Iraq-Kuwait border and postponed the negotiation talks.

Iraq should be blamed as they were unable to solve the disputes between them and Kuwait through reasoning instead of fighting.

Iraq was to blame as Saddam Hussein who was desperate to save Iraq's economy and decided to invade Kuwait. Iraq's economy was suffering after their war with Iran and Saddam Hussein already had a large army as well as angry people who were unhappy with the rise in prices due to the economy. Saddam Hussein thus fearing the army would turn on him decided to invade Kuwait. As Iraq was the one who took the offense first it was to blame.

Kuwait is to blame.

In 1990, Kuwait breached the OPEC quota of production, keeping the prices of oil low, resulting in Iraq to lose revenue from selling oil, unable to repay debt to Kuwait

I feel that Kuwait was to blame. Kuwait, along with the UAE ignored OPEC quotas and produced oil above their assigned limits. This caused the oil prices to fall from US$18 to US$7 per barrel and because of this, Iraq-who had fought against Iran on behalf of it's neighbours and thus was in severe debt from war-lost a lot of revenue (US$1 billion from oil sales each time the prices of oil fell by US$1). Hence Kuwait was not exactly the most cooperative and helpful neighbour, thus aggravating Iraq. Kuwait knew that 90% of Iraq's income came from the sales of oil and hence Kuwait's actions were equivalent to economic warfare.

Iraq was to blame.

Iraq accused Kuwait of using slant drilling technology to steal oil from Iraq's side of the Rumalia oilfield, and made unreasonable demands to Kuwait by demanding Kuwait to stop drilling from the oilfield immediately, and US$2.4 billion as compensation.

Iraq also attempted to take the Warbah and Bubiyah islands from Kuwait by force from the 1960s to the 1970s, which is as good as invading and trying to take over Kuwait's territory.

Iraq also started the aggression against Kuwait by sending their troops to invade Kuwait even after Kuwait wrote of Iraq's previous debt and loaned them another US$500 million.

Iraq was to be blamed. During the period before the Gulf War, Iraq and Kuwait actually met to attempt to solve the problems during the Arab League Talks (July 1990) However, Iraq was seen to be unwilling to negotiate. This is evident as Iraq had been delaying and postponing negotiations.Iraq started to station Iraqi troops at the border of Kuwait which Kuwait dismissed as a bluff. After that, Iraq then attacked Kuwait a day before the supposed negotiation. This shows that Iraq had initiated the war towards Kuwait using aggression despite peaceful means being implemented, showing the direct cause of the Gulf War.

Kuwait was to blame as they did not help out Iraq withs it's problems and caused Iraq to suffer in its economy by decrising the price of oil by overproducing it more than OPEC's oil quotas. With Kuwait causing Iraq to face eonomic warfare by attacking its economy by overproducing oil, Iraq was forced to attack and thus Kuwait was to blame for attacking Iraq's economy first.

Iraq was to be blamed for the Gulf war as, when they were in financial trouble, they did everything they could to try to accuse Kuwait of stealing from them, so that they could get money. Iraq also invaded Kuwait before they had even finished the debate on peace-making. Saddam Hussein was impatient and greedy, trying to make as much money as possible. They also attacked Kuwait, even after Kuwait had written off their wartime-debt, which actually was not an obligation of Kuwait.

Kuwait should be blamed for the war as they worsened Iraq's financial situation after Iran-Iraq war by selling more oil, causing oil prices to drop. This could be the reason why Iraq's economy suffered so badly after the war, causing them to resort to other means to help restore their economy such as invading resource rich Kuwait.

Iraq should be blamed. They initiated the conflict. They took military action without confiding with the other nations in the Arab league.

Iraq was to blame.

The middle wastern community felt that Saddam's invasion should be dealt in arab context instead of the western. Saudi Arabia hence submitted a proposal for Iraq to withdraw peacefully and still acclaim victory. Kuwait also had to gave away 2 islands to Iraq that were blocking their limited access to sea areas. However, Saddam himself wanted to gain something for this deal and refused to spare an attack on Kuwait. Thus it is evidently quite clear that Saddam was to blame.

I feel that Kuwait was to blame as it is not willing to help Iraq. Kuwait initially did not want to erase Iraq's debts but finally unwillingly did it as other countries pressurized it to do so.