“Unable to pay back the $14 billion he had borrowed from Kuwait [to fund the Iran-Iraq War], Saddam attempted to raise the price of oil through OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), but Kuwait responded by increasing the flow from its own massive oil fields, which kept world prices low. Outraged by that action, plus the fact that Kuwait refused to waive Iraq’s debt, Saddam amassed his military forces along the Kuwait border in late July 1990…” [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Ricardo S. Sanchez with Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in Battle, Page 63