WI Kuwait always Iraq's 19th province

WI Kuwait had incorperated in Kuwait from the post WW1 settlement.

1) Would this have prevented Saddam's rise to power

2) If other events were as otl might this mean Iraq seeming to win the Iran Iraq War?>

3) If other things are otl up to August 1990, is Saddam still 'our son of a bitch' to the US.

4) No desert storm, how does this impact US Politics, especially with 1992 looking more worthwhile to Democrats.

5) no need for US forces in Saudi, how much does this impact on fundamnetalism in Sunni Islam, especially on Osama Bin LADIN
 
WI Kuwait had incorperated in Kuwait from the post WW1 settlement.

1) Would this have prevented Saddam's rise to power

Why would it have(?) the shia were already a majority, but Saddam's people kept them in line.

2) If other events were as otl might this mean Iraq seeming to win the Iran Iraq War?>

I think it would've went pretty much as it did historically. Iraq already had far more military equipment than Iran but that didn't address the fundamental problems of its military--those that Pollack wrote about.

3) If other things are otl up to August 1990, is Saddam still 'our son of a bitch' to the US.

Sure.

4) No desert storm,

Not sure there wouldn't have been a war or at least a move by Saddam. Even if he had Kuwait he might've gone after the real jackpot, Saudi Arabia.


how does this impact US Politics, especially with 1992 looking more worthwhile to Democrats.

Clintom won despite Bush's victory.

5) no need for US forces in Saudi, how much does this impact on fundamnetalism in Sunni Islam, especially on Osama Bin LADIN

If you read Walt and Mearsheimer The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy you'll see they made a case Osama also struck because of US support of Israel. In fact the authors say it was his primary reason so....
 
I mean, would the overthrow of the Iraqi Kingdom even happen if Iraq had control over the entire head of the Persian Gulf? That might change the calculus for British support.
 
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