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It demanded that Iraq make restitution to Kuwait and other countries harmed by the war, free Kuwaiti citizens detained during the occupation, return Kuwaiti property stolen during the war, recognize Kuwaiti sovereignty, and demonstrate that it could live in peace with its neighbors.

First, however, there are several regionwide concepts that affect the thinking of many countries on Iraq and will likely influence their reaction to any U.

Throughout the period of sanctions there have been countries and companies that have been willing to sell Iraq anything it wants.

Certainly no member was willing to impose new sanctions on Iraq or those countries helping them to violate the sanctions.

Indeed, it appears that Saddam calculated that a full-blown Arab-Israeli war would be a tremendous opportunity for him because it probably would split the United States and the moderate Arab states, compel the GCC countries to evict the U.

It was not until the 1980s that the two countries came into meaningful contact, and then the limits of their prior relations bred ignorance, miscalculation, and suspicion, leading to regular misreadings of each other's intentions.

Moreover, the protests to the European countries were little more than slaps on the wrist and did not have any discernible impact.

Servicing Iraq's debt to non-Arab countries was costing Baghdad another $6 billion to $7 billion annually.

Part of the drop in oil prices was a result of overproduction by OPEC countries, such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which not only profited from their overproduction but were pursuing a long-term economic policy of trying to increase global dependence on oil by depressing prices.

Throughout the fall of 1990, a procession of officials--from the United Nations, the Arab League, France, Russia, and many other countries and organizations--came to Baghdad to try to resolve the dispute short of war.

As part of what was called Operation Provide Comfort, the three countries undertook to feed and care for more than 500,000 Kurdish refugees in an area of northern Iraq and announced the establishment of a no-fly zone (NFZ) north of the Thirty-sixth Parallel, in which Iraqi aircraft would be forbidden to fly and that would be patrolled by coalition fighters.

Armed with the latest intelligence about Iraq's WMD programs, obstruction of the inspections, and human rights abuses, Albright got a strong endorsement for a hard line on Iraq from all of the countries she visited.

Once again he proved that few countries were willing to support the use of force and that the United States and Britain were virtually alone in their determination to see Iraq comply with its international obligations.

By 2000, Iraq's trade was worth roughly $17 billion, and other countries were determined to get a piece of it.

Beyond this, there simply was no downside for countries cooperating with Iraq, either legally or illegally.