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If the US had ANY imperialistic goals or was on any kind of epire like expansion we would currently be the owners of Iraq and Kuwait, and would have been so for more than 10 years after that brief 100 hour ground scuffle in '91.
Well you could not have stayed there. What would be your excuse. Instead you put an american friendly goverment in kuweit and kept iraq intact in order to have an excuse for letting there troops and equipment in order to keep the middle east under your immediate control.
That simple
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