Kuwait
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Since the beginning of time, imperialist acts from one country to another were brought on for different reasons. Most if not all of the time, the need for a military conquest was for the simple fact of expanding territory, improving the economic state of the country going to war, obtaining strategic locations, and/or just gaining more say or power. In the case of Iraq invading Kuwait in the early 90's the same basic reasons that others had since the beginning was why the dictator, at the time Saddam Hussein, went forth with a military act of invading Kuwait. Economic instability and the desire to make Iraq an outstanding economic capital figure was mostly the reason Saddam invaded a country 1/24th the size of his own.
From the time that Saddam became President of Iraqin 1979, he ruled with an iron fist. All who opposed, or criticized, Saddam were quickly tortured and executed. This made many if not all journalists, writers, and business people leave Iraq in order to escape persecution. The power to do what Saddam willed did not come to Saddam easily, he wasn't exactly picked out of a random line-up of Iraqis' and just given power, instead he achieved this status that he held onto for quite a long time. As an adolescent Saddam joined a political group known as the ba'athswhich later, along with Saddam, took part in an assassination plot to kill the president at the time. Even though the assassination failed, the political group that he belonged to eventually rose to power and Saddam quickly climbed through the rankseventually becoming President...