driven by the oil trade and the reluctance of Kuwait to adhere to the oil quotas of the OPEC agreement. This directly affected the price of oil. The reduction in oil prices directly increased the amount of deficit in which Iraq was operating. Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi regime felt Kuwait was their territory so they had the right to take it back and govern as they see fit. Kuwait rejected these ideas and opposed the takeover. Iraq was an ally of the Soviet Union and they were a huge supporter of
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America along with their coalition forces invaded Iraq in order to seize power because of what they perceived as the aggressive intensions of Iraq’s leader ‘Saddam Hussein’. The coalition made an assumption that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass destruction. “The coalition’s mission was ‘to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction‚ to end Saddam Hussein ’s support for
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regarding Hussein’s possession of WMD to use against the United States and its allies (Amin‚ 2014). Hussein had already used biological and chemical weapons during the Kurdish war and the Iraq-Iran war. This history gave the Bush administration a reason that all people could agree upon since no one wanted Hussein to be in a position to use WMD against Americans. However‚ scholars have argued that Hussein only used biological and chemical weapons in the countries that could not retaliate in kind. Thus
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taking Iran‚ it led its infantry and armored divisions‚ artillery and what little aircraft that the Iraqis had on an attack against an outnumbered and overwhelmed Iranian defense. However‚ due to the careless decisions made by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein‚ lack of sufficient air support‚ and display of consistency in defense by the Iranian Army‚ Iraq gained little from the conflict and was eventually repelled by the Iranian defenders out of Iran‚ losing all territory gained during its invasion
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In August of 1990‚ Saddam Hussein‚ the Dictator of Iraq‚ invaded the small neighboring country of Kuwait with goals to acquire profitable oil supplies. By attempting to control over one-fifth of the world’s oil supply‚ Hussein also posed an immediate threat to other powers in the Persian Gulf. George H.W. Bush‚ the American President at the time‚ responded to the tension stating‚ “this will not stand‚” resulting in Operation Desert Storm. SOURCE The causes leading up to Operation Desert Storm
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The purpose of this Essay is to gain a better perspective on Operation Desert Storm and gain a better understanding on what brought upon this war why did Saddam want to control kuwait’s oil‚ and what input did the United States have into starting and ending this War? On August 2‚ 1990‚ Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait. While Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had been making threats against Kuwait for quite some time.the actual invasion caught most of the world by surprise. everyone expected just a limited attack
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people ’s trust. An example of such ruler was Saddam Hussein‚ who ruthlessly ruled over the Iraqi people for twenty five years. After Hussein ’s capture by the United States armed forces‚ the dictator was asked why he had lied about weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Hussein answered that if the Iraqis and the Iraq ’s neighbors had had acknowledged that he had gotten rid of his WMD‚ he would have lost control within and without the country. Saddam Hussein tried to trick the world and maintain a perceived
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particular and that is Saddam Hussein. His actions lead to the U.S. joining with allies in the motion to contain Iraq‚ and later the result of the U.S.’s choice to retaliate against threats against them by Saddam Hussein. Today‚ the U.S. is still struggling‚ as well as benefiting from the war in Iraq. Based on the causes that served to initiate the U.S. getting involved in a war with Iraq‚ the outcomes of such events played a major role in the effects of the country. Saddam Hussein was the ruler of
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Iraq was in post-war reconstruction after losing the First Gulf War in 1991. Saddam Hussein’s terrible leadership caused Iraq to be a country in poverty. The United States invaded Iraq in order to assassinate Hussein and to stabilize Iraq. Saddam Hussein and his family moved from city to city to escape the assassination. The United States had bombed many cities and killed many civilians during this search for Hussein. The United States invasion of Iraq led to the destabilization of Iraq which caused
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States had been supplying Iraq with military supplies for the better part of the 80’s‚ so that they could fight the Soviets. The Iraqis’ in turn used those supplies to attack Kuwait. Desert Shield became Desert Storm by President Bush giving Saddam Hussein an ultimatum saying that if they did not withdraw by January 15‚ 1991‚ then the United States would force them to withdraw. This war was much more than the United States protecting
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