'the Gulf War Reader' / A Review
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...Moon 10 March 1998 Iraq is in reality a very small country with a very big reputation. Much of this reputation comes at the hands of her leader, Saddam Hussein. The country is culturally diverse and consists of numerous communities each of which cherishes its distinctness from the others. Iraq has numerous natural resources including cultivable land, extensive water resources, as well as oil and other resources. Iraq has the second largest oil reserve in the Middle East. It is the natural reserves of oil around which many of the issues of the Gulf War pivots. Although the history and development of the oil industry which runs to the very core of the Gulf War, oil is not the only incendiary factor in this affair. Draper writes: "Gulf oil is useful but hardly a matter of life or death now. It is at least vital to the United States, which gets only four percent of its oil through the straight of Harms at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. But even if the Strait f Hormuz were closed the cutback in oil...
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