From: David N. Barnett 

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 10:54:20 +0100, Phil Payne
 wrote in message
:

| > If I may, the main goal was for Iraq to secure a port on the Persian Gulf.
That, of
| > course, answers the other questions.
|
| I think the Halliburton-assisted Kuwaiti slant drilling into Iraq's |
oilfields might also have had just a tad to do with it.

I was asking about Iran-Iraq, not the Gulf War...

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