The Persain Gulf War

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The Persian Gulf War-the Feat of the Western Countries

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 t

President Bush continued to maintain that he was taking advantage of the issue

President Bush's

South Korea, Spain, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom,

was that the Coalition had a total of 2600 aircraft, over three times more

fighters, gave the Coalition an accuracy and firepower that overwhelmed the

It is easy to sense in the following quote from an Iraqi lieutenant’s war diary

that Iraq would have very little chance against the Coalition. The relative

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