what year did us invaded iraq?
2003 invasion of Iraq
contradiction
 On August 2 , 1990 , Saddam Hussein sent an invading force of Iraqi troops into Kuwait . According to the United States government Hussein 's forces would continue south into Saudi Arabia 's oil fields . The United States military deployment to Saudi Arabia , Operation Desert Shield , grew rapidly to become the largest American deployment since the Vietnam War . 

contradiction
 The war developed at a time when the attention of the United States and the world was on Iraq , and the Gulf War in 1991 , along with a sharp rise in oil prices and a slowdown in the growth of the world economy . 

entailment
 On August 1 , 1990 , Iraqi President Saddam Hussein sent the invading Iraqi forces into neighboring Kuwait , a small petroleum @-@ rich state long claimed by Iraq as part of its territory . This invasion sparked the initiation of the Persian Gulf War and it brought worldwide condemnation . An estimated 140 @,@ 000 Iraqi troops quickly took control of Kuwait City and moved on to the Saudi Arabia / Kuwait border . The United States had already begun to develop contingency plans for the defense of Saudi Arabia by the U.S. Central Command , headed by General Norman Schwarzkopf , because of its important petroleum reserves . 

contradiction
 On 2 August 1990 Iraq , led by President Saddam Hussein , invaded Kuwait . In the middle of the month U.S. President George H. W. Bush , in keeping with the Carter Doctrine , sent the first of several hundred thousand troops , along with a strong force of naval support , to Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf area to support a multinational force in a standoff with Iraq . 

entailment
 On 2 August 1990 , the Iraqi Army invaded and occupied the neighboring state of Kuwait . The invasion , which followed the inconclusive Iran – Iraq War and three decades of political conflict with Kuwait , offered Saddam Hussein the opportunity to distract political dissent at home and add Kuwait 's oil resources to Iraq 's own , a boon in a time of declining petroleum prices . 
