Bonzai
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Saudi and Kuwaiti oil were indeed important in the first Iraq war, but no one's oil was a motive for the second.
Prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Iraq had brought charges for several years against Kuwait that it was drilling diagonally near the Iraqi border into Iraq. Not being an oilman but understanding the concept of "diagonal", I have always been curious as to why the UN unilaterally refused to look into those charges............................