Iraq, situated in Southwest Asia has always had an ambition of overtaking its Southern bordering neighbor Kuwait. This obsession has dealt Iraq many crushing blows over the span of the 19th century. In 1938, the Iraqi King Ghanzi used military power and mass amounts of propaganda to gain control of the people of Kuwait (Arab.net). This backfired on Iraq when King Ghanzi was killed in a car wreck, just days after Iraq troops had reached the border of Kuwait. Then again in 1961, Iraq plotted the annexation of Kuwait. Kuwait had just declared independence from Britain when the ruler of Iraq, Abdul-Karim Qassem

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