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... . The United Nations called it one of the world's great ecological disasters. He has also conducted ethnic cleansing against the Shiite Iraqis and the Marsh Arabs whose culture has flourished for more than a millennium. Saddam also forced the resettlement of thousands of Shiite Muslims Arabs who follow a branch of Islam prevalent in neighboring Iran, a bitter enemy of Iraq. Shiites make up a majority ... ...
... midnight February 28, 1991 was criticized, because it allowed Baghdad to rescue a large amount of military equipment and personnel that were later used to suppress the postwar rebellions of its Shiite and Kurdish citizens. In his own defense, the president asserted that the war had accomplished its mandate. The mission, given by the Security Council, was to expel the Iraqi forces ... ...
... Iranian section called Khuzestan, an area known for it's oil fields. A more important issue than geography was religion. Both nations were Muslim, with the leaders from Iran mainly from the Shiite branch and the leaders of Iraq from the Sunni. Before the Iranian revolution, the distinction between the countries was less religious than ideological. The ruling Ba'ath Party in Iraq ... ...
... far all of the main American aims seem to have been met, Saddam is no longer in power, Iraq is moving towards establishing a democratic government, and, as the formerly prohibited Shiite Muslim march to Karbala's holy shrine on April 22, 2003 (Council on Foreign Affairs) proved, at least some of the Iraqis have been liberated. The alternative of war was therefore ... ...
