Saddam wanted an oil empire. First he went after Iran. He had US help in the form of satellite data and chemical weapons because they really didn't like Iran. But he failed. Then he went after Kuwait, using the excuse that they were drilling side ways into Iraqi oil fields. Saddam asked the US ambassador if the US cared if he invaded and she told him it was none of their business. Which it wasn't. But Bush 1 decided otherwise.

The US and Saudi Arabia figured Saddam's next move, after the failed invasion of Kuwait and Iran, was to go after Saudi Arabia. So the Saudi's asked the US to put a military base in Saudi Arabia to deter Saddam.

Osama bin Laden objected to a foreign military base on Holy Land and offered to put 15,000 of his own troops on the border instead. But the Saudi's went with the US base and Bin Laden went from being an ally in the fight against communism in Afghanistan in the 1980's to issuing a declaration of war against the US in 1996 and again in 1998.

After Bin Laden did 9/11, Bush 2 decided he had to cut off the motivation for Al Qaida recruitment. The top recruiting tool was the US base in Saudi Arabia. But the US couldn't close the base while Saddam was still in power. So they overthrew Saddam in 2003 and closed the base shortly after.

Maybe military and economic reason.

dunno.

security reasons maybe, and economic ones.

GworoChewinMaga:
Saddam wanted an oil empire. First he went after Iran. He had US help in the form of satellite data and chemical weapons because they really didn't like Iran. But he failed. Then he went after Kuwait, using the excuse that they were drilling side ways into Iraqi oil fields. Saddam asked the US ambassador if the US cared if he invaded and she told him it was none of their business. Which it wasn't. But Bush 1 decided otherwise.
The US and Saudi Arabia figured Saddam's next move, after the failed invasion of Kuwait and Iran, was to go after Saudi Arabia. So the Saudi's asked the US to put a military base in Saudi Arabia to deter Saddam.
Osama bin Laden objected to a foreign military base on Holy Land and offered to put 15,000 of his own troops on the border instead. But the Saudi's went with the US base and Bin Laden went from being an ally in the fight against communism in Afghanistan in the 1980's to issuing a declaration of war against the US in 1996 and again in 1998.
After Bin Laden did 9/11, Bush 2 decided he had to cut off the motivation for Al Qaida recruitment. The top recruiting tool was the US base in Saudi Arabia. But the US couldn't close the base while Saddam was still in power. So they overthrew Saddam in 2003 and closed the base shortly after.

Looks like you are doing research paper that was due 10 years ago.

WhoRUDeceiving:


Looks like you are doing research paper that was due 10 years ago.

Am trying to see it from another angle

It is true that the US/Kuwait were drilling sideways into Iraqi oil fields.

1.) In 1981, the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) bought Sante Fe Drilling Corporation and its high-tech engineering subsidiary Braun. Sante Fe was a known CIA front. Braun had devised a new slant drilling technique. Throughout the 1980’s KOC used this technology to drill horizontally into the Rumaila oilfield, 90% of which fell within Iraqi territory.

The Iraqis said Kuwait stole $10 billion worth of crude oil. After the Gulf War, Sante Fe continued to steal Iraqi oil.

In April 1993 Kenneth Beaty, head of exploration for Sante Fe, was arrested by the Iraqi government when he was found inside Iraq checking an oil well at Rumaila. He was sentenced to eight years at Abu Ghraib prison on trespassing charges.


***Now, Pay attention to this***


The Iraq Invasion


Although I could make an excellent case for control of oil. Or that it was a great economic boom for some companies. War makes corporations tons of money. Nobody wins a war except corporations. Every war has proven this. So a war against Iraq was good business, but the real reason USA invaded Iraq was to capture a StarGate locked up & buried beneath the ground of Iraq by the Anunnaki when they abandoned the Earth around 1,700 B.C.

1st, let's take a look at the lies fabricated in selling the Iraq War to the gullible masses.

Lie number 1: They made a connection to 9/11 and Iraq based upon a supposed meeting between hijacker pilot Mohamed Atta and the Iraqi Consulate in Prague who was claimed to be an Iraqi intelligence agent. This claim came from a source that was considered untrustworthy. All other evidence indicated that Hussein was actually fearful of Al-Qaeda.

Lie number 2: They claimed Iraq had purchased aluminum tubing for use in creating nuclear weapons - but that charge was completely proven false as the aluminum tubes were simply too thick to be used in developing an uranium centrifuge.

Lie number 3: In spite of documents showing Iraq was buying uranium ore from Niger were proven forgeries, Bush used the State of the Union Address to tell the world that Hussein was buying this yellow brick to pursue plans for nuclear weapons.

Lie number 4: Hussein already had since the late 1990's several mobile biological weapons labs. But this information came from an Iraqi emigrant living in Germany who was known as being so unreliable his codename was Curveball.

Back in the 1920s the Iraq StarGate was uncovered in Baghdad. This StarGate was surrounded by the “Green Zone” during the Iraqi War and was the whole purpose for the war. Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD’s) were an excuse. Having control of the StarGate was the goal of the Bush Administration as well as Nazi Germany.

This was a repeat of when Hitler and Nazi Germany went to Iraq to fight against the British as both wanted control of the Iraq StarGate. Führer Directive No. 30 dealt with German intervention in support of Arab Nationalists in the Kingdom of Iraq. During the 1930s, representatives of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy attempted to gain favor with various Iraqi nationalists and promised support against the British.

On 2 May 1941, after tensions mounted on both sides, the British launched pre-emptive land strikes against Iraqi forces and the Anglo-Iraqi War began. Rashid Ali immediately requested that the Germans make good on the earlier promises of assistance. The International Zone (formerly known as the Green Zone) is the heavily guarded diplomatic/government area of closed-off streets in central Baghdad where US occupation authorities live and work.

The Green Zone in the central city includes the main palaces of former President Saddam Hussein where the StarGate is located in the basement of the main palace. The area houses the civilian ruling authority run by the Americans and British and the offices of major US consulting companies. Prescott Bush had furnished weapons to Nazi Germany to arm them for World War II.

Saddam Hussein wanted to cement his place in history by reviving the grandeur of early Mesopotamian civilizations because he was allegedly aware of the existence of a Stargate. Prior to the US invasion, Hussein performed a detailed underground mapping of the area around the Sumerian city of Uruk and had given permission for a German team of archaeologists to resume excavations in the most likely location of the Sumerian Stargate. This is consistent with the German government’s public opposition to the invasion of Iraq. If there is a Stargate in Southern Iraq, then the Bush Administration was aware the Stargate would play a role in a “prophesied return of the gods.”

SADDAM HUSSEIN AND THE ALIENS

On Thursday, December 16, 1998, during Operation Desert Fox, the Allied air strike against Iraq, a video clip aired on CNN showed a UFO hovering over Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, and moving away to avoid a stream of tracer anti-aircraft fire. At the time, it was thought to be just another UFO sighting, although captured on videotape. Many ufologists think there might have been more to this incident.

According to ufologist Ignatius Graffeo, "I did see a triangular formation of lights moving very slowly at about" 12:55 a.m. Baghdad time that Thursday "on an NBC news report of the bombing...The light was steady, and it was definite and very striking." He described it as "a V-shaped formation like the one at Phoenix," Arizona on March 13, 1997.

The UFO "was against a black night sky and very different from the 'greenish' tracer fire moving across the sky, which did not hold their position for any length of time."

On December 6, 2002, a caller into the Art Bell (radio) show, who claimed to have a connection to the military, said a UFO crashed in Iraq in recent years. The caller also stated that the U.S. is searching for any public pretext to invade Iraq, but its greatest fear is that Saddam will reverse-engineer the crashed alien spacecraft. "The craft allegedly crashed during the Gulf War (1990-1991) or more recently (possibly December 1998). This will be Iraq's Roswell. The U.S. is currently reverse-engineering the Roswell craft and fears Saddam's scientists will catch up with or even go beyond the U.S. in one or more areas. These areas of research include zero point, over-ratio or gravimetric technology, which would allow for a tremendous advance, allowing Iraq to become a leading power."

During a recent guest appearance on 'Beyond The Edge' Radio, author / UFO & military historian Mack Maloney made a similar statement about an alien craft being shot down by U.S. pilots and that the wreckage was retrieved by the Iraqis.

Ukrainian psychic Lenura A. Azizova claimed that Saddam Hussein first met an extraterrestrial in 1989, when a cylindrical UFO crashed in the mountains southeast of Kirkuk.

"In 1989, in the mountainous region several dozen kilometers east or southeast of Kirkuk, was the UFO crash that was soon cordoned off by Saddam's military," Azizova said, following a series of remote-viewing sessions in her own country. "The craft was seized, evaluated and kept hidden in great secrecy. The crash of this alien spacecraft made a long trench in the ground. The vehicle was shaped like a cylinder, or more precisely, like a bullet, 12 meters (40 feet) long and 2.4 meters (8 feet) in diameter, silver in color."

"The body of one dead alien was found inside," she added, "The alien was Asian-looking, about 1.5 meters (5 feet) in height, with a big head, big eyes and four- fingered hands. The second member of the crew left the capsule through the opening at the back part of the craft. A few days afterward, Iraqi soldiers in the nearby mountains" north of Taqtaq "caught this second alien. The entity was obviously frightened and gave off squeaking noises."

"Saddam was afraid that other aliens would arrive to save the crew, so the recovery was made very quickly," she stated. "The Iraqi army transported the craft in top secrecy at night to Irbil province, where the special underground tunnel with hangars was constructed to hide and study the spacecraft. Natural caves existing in the region were used for this purpose. The body of the (dead alien) pilot was also stored there in a special cryogenic container."

The underground facility is "located in the mountains southeast of Irbil, approximately somewhere between Girdasur and Mirza Agha."

An Iraqi correspondent Mohammed Daud al-Hayyat stated before the invasion, "there are talks about extraterrestrials in Iraq, but nothing is said about any crash. It is rumored at a market in Sulaimaniya, to the south of Zarzi, that aliens are Saddam's guests. Where do they stay then? People mention some underground base. But Saddam has a palace in this valley, an old stronghold Qalaat-e-Julundi. Earlier it belonged to the royal family. After the revolution, the government took possession of the fortress, and now, like every palace in Iraq it is "a summer residence" of Saddam Hussein. The fortress is mentioned here for a very simple reason: it is practically impossible to penetrate into it. The citadel stands on a hill surrounded with vertical precipices on three sides; the precipices plunge down to the Little Zab river. It is said that Saddam lets aliens stay there."


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An Iraqi UFO reporter Mohammed Hajj al-Amdar said on the basis of strange stories coming out of that valley: "Saddam gave the aliens sanctuary, so that they couldn't be captured by Americans. Nobody can reach the citadel Qalaat-e-Julundi at night. They say that the aliens created "watchdogs" for Saddam. The aliens took ordinary desert scorpions and used their bio-engineering to grow the scorpions to giant size. Scorpions of a cow-size! They are wonderful watchdogs: they blend in with the desert, swiftly and silently move on their warm-blooded prey for a decisive attack. Luckless intruders hear just some strange sound from behind stones, then a pincer crushes their necks, another pincer crushes their legs; then the victims is slammed to the ground and beaten with a barbed tail six or seven times. Death comes almost immediately."

UFO Roundup Editor Joseph Trainor came to a conclusion that something strange is actually happening in the valley of the Little Zab river, but it is not clear what exactly. It is not ruled out that Saddam intentionally spreads these rumors so that to scare people away from some important military object located in the old fortress of Qalaat-e-Julundi.

Several years earlier, on June 20, 1993, information was published on FIDOnet's MUFONET BBS NETWORK, what was a letter from 'Steve from Britain'. He openly warned: "The following information was published in Amateur Radio Packet BBS on June 13 by some short-wave transmitter for spreading all over the world. I know nothing about the man who published the information, I also cannot say whether his information is true. The man reported that some aircraft was found after it was brought down by F-16 over Saudi Arabia during raids in Baghdad."

The information itself said: "A high-ranking source admitted that US Air Force's F-16 brought down a UFO over Saudi Arabia during the Operation Desert Storm, and five countries are trying to conceal information about this fact. I don't know details, but it was some plane unknown to me. Saudis who were with me at that moment, were scared so much that they asked American, British and French investigators to come to the crash site immediately."

Colonel Gregor Petrokov, a senior Russian official said that at that moment he was on a visit to Er Riyadh, where together with a Russian group he managed to examine the crashed aircraft before American troops participating in Desert Storm came to the crash site. He said: "The aircraft was round and made of some material that I never saw myself. About one third of the craft was torn out by blasts of American missiles. Saudis didn't let us touch anything, but we managed to see appliances, mechanisms and other things that bewildered us absolutely." Inscriptions on the control panel and on the scales were in some unknown language.

"It was a relatively small craft, of approximately 15 feet in diameter. It had three chairs, probably for crew members, but they were so small as if meant for children. To all appearance, space aliens were just about three feet tall. However, it seems incredible that there were no dead bodies at the crash site; what is more, nothing that might look like an engine was found there as well. Probably American missiles hit the engine immediately and destroyed it. Later, operators of Saudi radar stations told me that no ejection or falling of some subjects out of the craft was registered. Searching helicopters surveyed the desert, but the pilots failed to find any surviving crew member close to the crash site."

At the radar station Petrokov learned that the target identified as a UFO emerged "from nowhere" when four F-16 headed for Baghdad. One of the American planes broke the line and directed toward the UFO. The alien craft started moving south-west, away from the American plane, and the latter pursued it. When the F-16 was three miles away from the object, the craft fired at it but missed. Then the American plane fired a missile at the UFO. A horrifying sound followed and the spacecraft dropped on the ground. Petrokov says that when American investigators came to the crash site, he and his people were ordered to leave the area for Er Riyadh. The colonel says, it is highly likely that Americans didn't want others see some other things that were in the crash site in addition to the round shape of the craft made of some unknown material and the fact that no aliens survived after the crash.

In Petrokov's words, people from his team managed to take pictures of the site, and neither Saudis nor Americans noticed it. But the next day the team was ordered to bring the pictures to Russian authorities. "American military engineers gathered all wreckage and removed them for further study in the USA."

This info is first class . Am sure most sites having this must have been taken down