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The argument I put forward is the Iraqi position. And has been the Iraqi position since the beginning.



So I guess the actual Kuwaitis aren't entitled to their own position right? You're making my point for me. This was a pre-existing dispute under the Ottoman Empire before the British got involved in 1897 (at Kuwait's request).

The 1913 treaty was never ratified, BTW, and became irrelevant once the Ottoman empire ended.

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Kuwait hasn't been self-governing until Britain granted it full independence in 1961. Until then it was a subject kingdom. They call this a colony.



Self-governance and sovereignty are two different things. It's been self-governing for centuries. The sovereignty was in dispute between empires.

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Your version, to the Iraqi, is but British propaganda.



But yours isn't Iraqi propaganda?

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And, I find the Iraqi side has more credibility based in part on the ££££s involved.



Aaah! So no revisionist historical bias then. Funny thing is, oil wasn't discovered in Kuwait until later.

So let me get this straight, what you're basically saying is the opinion of the actual Kuwaitis, who chose the British to avoid being subsumed into their bigger neighbor under Turkish rule, is irrelevant. It happened that Kuwait became an oil-rich, friendly state, therefore this must have been due to a conniving plot by the British.
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