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August 2 in History

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August 2, 1990

Two in the Morning in Kuwait City

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990

In the dark hours of August second, nineteen ninety, a hundred thousand Iraqi troops poured across a desert border toward a sleeping neighbor. What drove Saddam Hussein to swallow an entire country whole, and why did the world refuse to let him keep it?

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