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Well done for not reading my post.
Plus isn't that exactly what the yanks did?
The middle east has always had problems, was it a justified war, absolutely, should we have deposed him first time yes. It was the lack of deposing him that led to the second war, which again was probably justified as he was still as murderous and was refusing to comply with the weapons inspectors. If he had done what he was supposed to after gulf war 1 then it wouldn't have happened.

Did the yanks steal oil, to some degree they stole wealth, yes, abhorrent. They stole from the aggressors Iraq, not from the victims Kuwait
 
Just out of curiosity do you think the middle east got better or worse after the first gulf war?

Why was it justified? I was only a young kid when it kicked off so looking for some education. A quick read on Wikipedia shows 25,000-50,000 Iraqi casualties and 3,500+ civilian casualties compared to 147 coalition deaths.

It was justified because Saddam invaded a foreign country and there was support in the UN with resolutions authorising the use of force to aid Kuwait and repel Iraq. George Bush Snr, after asking for the Kurds to rise in revolt against Saddam then stopped short of removing him as the UN resolutions, the US judged, did not go far enough to authorise regime change in Iraq, merely to take enough measures to safeguard the security of Kuwait. That meant no fly zones, sanctions, weapons inspections and the Iraqi military had to pull a long way back from the border.

Unfortunately it meant that Saddam was able to turn his weapons inward against the Kurds who had rose up and the US had no justification to intervene in an ostensibly internal civil matter.

It is of course one of the farcical things about the later attempted justification of the 2nd Gulf War that the Bush Jr administration tried to argue the two UN resolutions justifying the first gulf war still applied and justified a second invasion and removal of Saddam, when the Americans themselves at the time had already previously determined they didn't.

Did it make things worse or better? It certainly made them worse for the Kurds who were massacred. For the rest of the region, Iraq was kept weak and there was no fear of aggression, while internally Saddam kept a firm grip, so the chaos that later occurred to take advantage of the power vaccuum his removal created was postponed. There was very little choice for the US and the world but to come to Kuwait's aid once it was invaded. It was morally right and it was economically important because Saddam was knacking in the oil fields. The main reason Iraq invaded Kuwait was it's economy was in tatters due to the Iran-Iraq war, which had actually been something the West and other Arab nations had been behind as they feared the spread of Iranian religious fundamentalism, which in itself only came about because the West supported the brutal and corrupt Shah.
 
The middle east has always had problems, was it a justified war, absolutely, should we have deposed him first time yes. It was the lack of deposing him that led to the second war, which again was probably justified as he was still as murderous and was refusing to comply with the weapons inspectors. If he had done what he was supposed to after gulf war 1 then it wouldn't have happened.
I would disagree with that assessment - Bush Senior left Saddam well alone, even though he was a despot. At that point all the unrest was between Middle Eastern countries. Once Bush Junior decided to do his thing, all hell kicked off. That genie can never be put back in the bottle.
 
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