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Iraqis are actually demanding that Kuwait pay compensation for facilitating the 1991 U.S. "invasion" of Iraq...
In case you weren't sure, that's a story about right now, June 2009. Here is more.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 4, 2009 at 02:48 PM in Current Affairs, Law | Permalink
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The statement is less outrageous, given the context provided by the prior sentence in the piece: "...Kuwait's continuing -- and frankly absurd -- refusal to forgive Saddam-era debt, has driven relations to the boiling point."
Posted by: Sid at Jun 4, 2009 4:20:45 PM
Sounds like the american tort bar has started giving them advice.
Posted by: bastiat at Jun 4, 2009 4:50:04 PM
That's like a child asking for a lollipop after being spanked for stabbing another child with a stick.
Maybe that metaphors a bit of a stretch.... I liked bastiat's comment though, LOL. Two thumbs up.
Posted by: Jacob at Jun 4, 2009 8:42:49 PM
It rarely hurts to ask for compensation. It disorients the rubes.
jjm
Posted by: jjm at Jun 4, 2009 10:31:28 PM
Sure - right after Iraqis compensate Kuwait for the 1991 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
Posted by: qgambit at Jun 5, 2009 1:47:16 AM
I don't think the IRQ/KWT war is fully fleshed out, and recent events mean it probabvly never will be. However, it is beyond contention that KWT, through "cross drilling", was stealing IRQ oil. It was a totally disproportionate response, but it was a legitimate greivance. Where US/Iraqi relations now stand, it'd be tough to get any clarity of that period, but it isn't a crazy position for iraq to say they want this chapter re-opened
Posted by: farmer at Jun 5, 2009 7:42:55 AM
Farmer,
The cross-drilling was a total pretext. Iraq had claimed Kuwait since independence, based on the borders of the Ottoman province of Basra, and had more or less seriously held out those claims since 1962. It was just waiting for an excuse and a regime willing to risk a war.
Posted by: jb at Jun 5, 2009 8:15:41 AM
Can they repay in milkshakes?
Posted by: Andrew at Jun 5, 2009 1:19:02 PM
Why the quote marks 'round 'invasion'? As near as I can tell, what the US did in 1991 in Iraq meets all the criteria of an invasion.
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