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Gulf War

St. Augustine's Just

War Theory and the Persion Gulf War On August 2nd, 1990

the first Iraqi tanks crossed into Kuwait, as part of an invasion

that marked the start of a six-month conflict between the

United States and Iraq. These tanks were ordered to invade

Kuwait by Saddam Hussein, the ruthless dictator of Iraq. The

Iraqi troops looted Kuwaiti businesses and brutalized Kuwaiti

civilians. Saudi Arabia began to fear that they may be invaded

as well, and on August 7th they formally asked President

Bush for US assistance. The US pledged to defend the

Saudis, and to remove the Iraqis from Kuwait. Great masses

of troops from many different nations were deployed in the

Persian Gulf area. At 4:30 PM EST on January 16, 1991, the

first aircraft with orders to attack Iraqi targets were launched

from Saudi Arabia, marking the beginning of Operation Desert

Storm. Dictators like Mr. Hussein cannot be allowed to take

advantage of smaller countries like bullies after lunch money.

There has to be someone to stop them, or they will gain more

and more power and land, just as Adolf Hitler tried to do in

World War II. That someone, in the case of Mr. Hussein, was

the United States, along with a multinational coalition. The US

had just cause in entering a war against Iraq because of Iraq's

invasion of the small and defenseless nation of Kuwait.

Actions such as that must be repulsed. Iraq had no just cause

in invading Kuwait; their reasons were either obscure or for...