While President George H.W. Bush presented the 1991 Persian Gulf War as a just war to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, most scholars have concluded that the allied intervention was motivated more by oil than ethics.

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Many scholars have argued that the United States was motivated to intervene in the Persian Gulf War primarily by a desire to protect its access to oil in the region, rather than by a commitment to promoting democracy or human rights.