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Saddam Hussien War. Persian Gulf War-the Feat of the Western Countries Essay
submitted by Unknown On August 2nd, 1990 Iraqi military ...
... On the final night of the war, within hours of the cease fire, two ... fifteen kilometers
North West of Baghdad in a deliberate attempt to kill Saddam Hussien. ...
... Saddam Hussien is out of power, the war against terrorism is going smoother than
ever, and in a few years Iraq will be a free and democratic country! ...
... I?ve heard the administration say that it was about the weapons of mass destruction.
I?ve heard that it was a war to remove Saddam Hussien from power. ...
... since found Saddam Hussien, the beloved leader of about fifty percent of the Iraqi
people. Until recently Bush has continued hiding behind his "War on Terrorism ...
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Persian Gulf War-the Feat of the Western Countries
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On August 2nd, 1990 Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. The order was given by Iraqi dictatorial president Saddam Hussein. His aim was apparently to take control Kuwait\\\'s oil reserves (despite its small size Kuwait is a huge oil producer; it has about 10 per cent of the world\\\'s oil reserves ). Iraq accused Kuwait, and also the United Arab Emirates, of breaking agreements that limit oil production in the Middle East. According to Saddam Hussein, this brought down world oil prices severely and caused financial loss of billions of dollars in Iraq\\\'s annual revenue.
Saddam Hussein had the nearly hopeless task of justifying the invasion. He plead the fact that Kuwait had been part of the Ottoman province of Basra, a city in the south of Iraq. However, the Ottoman province collapsed after World War I and today\\\'s Iraqi borders were not created until then. There was also a further and more obvious blunder in a bid to justify this illegal invasion. Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, had namely recognized Kuwaiti independence in 1963. Furthermore, Hussein claimed that Kuwait had illegally pumped oil from the Iraqi oil field of Rumaila and otherwise conspired to reduce Iraq\\\'s essential oil income.
By invading Kuwait, Iraq succeeded in surprising the entire world. The USA ended her policy of accommodating Saddam Hussein, which had existed since the Iran-Iraq war. Negative attitude toward Iraq was soon a worldwide phenomenon. The United Nations Security Council passed 12 resolutions condemning the invasion. The ultimate decision was to use military force if Iraq did not withdraw unconditionally by January 15, 1991. Then, when the deadline was set, it was time to start preparing for the worst-the war.
President George Bush confronted little difficulty in winning Americans\\\' support for the...
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