After occupying Kuwait, he argues, Iraq controls 18% of the world's oil reserves.
When Iraq occupied Kuwait in 1990, ending shipments from that country, oil prices shot up to $35 a barrel from $17 four months earlier.
The United Nations resolution was the fifth directed at Iraq since it occupied Kuwait.
Iraq occupied Kuwait in August 1990 and was expelled by American and allied troops seven months later.
The reason for this conflict is that Iraq has occupied Kuwait.
Now, two months after Iraq occupied Kuwait, you have sent an army against us.
It is at least possible that these identities were falsified, as Iraq had custody of those documents, while it occupied Kuwait.
On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait.
Less than a year later, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait.
On August 2, 1990, four days later, Saddam's massed troops invaded and occupied Kuwait.