This paper attempts to analyse the reasons that paved the way for the US administration to take the decision of direct military intervention and change the political regime in Iraq in 2003 and not in 1991, focusing on changing economic interest of the USA in the region which influenced that decision.
There is near consensus among Iraqi political analysts that the American intervention to change the regime in 2003 did not happen out of love for Iraqi people and to save them from the oppression of the previous totalitarian regime. Rather, in my view, it came about as a result of new US geostrategic calculations and interests in securing energy supply from the Middle East region, completely different from those that prevailed in the aftermath of the Kuwait War in 1991.
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