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    The Persian Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm In August 1990 the leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein commanded his military to invade Kuwait. Refugees fled Kuwait, as many citizens were robbed, assaulted, and looted. Kuwait is a small country located at the North-Western end of the Persian Gulf, this gulf separates South Western Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. Saddam Hussein was well known to be a ruthless dictator. Leaving this to be the first time a UN member nation had invaded one of its fellow UN

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    The War Of The Gulf War

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    US list of state sponsor terrorism.In August 1988 the ceasefire with Iran was signed when Iraq was bankrupt with most of its debt owed to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.So Iraq pressured both nations to forgive the debts,but they refused.Iraq also accused Kuwait of exceeding its OPEC quotas and

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    where as the rest of the coalition forces of 35 other countries were a combined $43.1 billion. This does not include the massive amount of subsidies that Saudi Arabia had given the allies, amounting to $43 billion by the time it is all said and done. Kuwait, who had already been riddled by the burning of 640 of their oil wells paid $22 billion

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    president, George W. Bush Speech for the incident of dictator of Iraq taking over Kuwait was that we are going to war with allies and soldiers who believe we have to fight with the cruel dictator of Iraq because when we offered peace they only wanted war and now we have to save the people of Kuwait. George immediately starts to play with our motions at the beginning about the dictator of Iraq taking over the weak Kuwait, “when the dictator of Iraq invaded a small and helpless neighbor… was crushed;

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    The United States and the Western Coalition has long looked at the Middle East as a asset with little risk high reward potential. They have all have looked at them as high reward low risk a region that in contrast has an abundance natural resources in particular oil with very underwhelming population. Even if they had a product that could reach out and touch the masses the internal struggles and lack of cohesion and structure to get out of the region. Both the United States and Western coalition

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    28, 1991. This war began by the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. During this invasion some of the oil fields of Kuwait were set on fire and some of the oil spilled to the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf was the oil supplier for western countries. So anything happened to the Persian Gulf, the western countries will naturally react. The factors that led to The United States’ involvement in the first Persian Gulf War included Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, his control over a sizable share of the world’s

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    life but others do. Kuwait on the other hand, which is located in the Middle East beside Iraq and Saudi Arabia, is also a very peaceful life where enjoy it because they do not have anything that they have to worry about and the only bad weather they get is rain and sand storms which cannot kill anyone. These two countries are a perfect place to live your life. They are very similar at times and very different at others. The USA definitely dresses and speaks way different than Kuwait do or ever will

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    Who among us does not dream of becoming like her, do not like to be famous like her?! She made Kuwait very proud of her improving achievements, she struggled a lot worked hard and became an example symbolized for struggle and effort, ambition and perseverance. She is a role model to all ambitious Arab girls in general and Kuwaiti girls specifically. She is the daughter of Kuwait, and as people also love to call her "Kuwaiti priceless treasure" she is a role model. She is the Kuwaiti Engineer Manar

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    Abstract The Gulf War was a brief affair between Kuwait and Iraq in 1990 and 1991 when Iraq invaded Kuwait, yet many additional state and non-state parties involved. Realism is a theory attempting to explain international relationships, which says that states struggle to hold power and will inevitably be in conflict with each other because of this. Although realism was a core theory before the Cold War, many believe that it is no longer applicable post-Cold War. This paper has three parts. First

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    Gulf War Of The Gulf

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    territories against harm from oil based debacles (Environmental Warfare). At the point when Iraqi troops withdrew from Kuwait toward the end of the Persian Gulf War in mid 1991, they set shoot to more than 600 oil wells and pools of spilled oil in Kuwait, a separating shot that claimed a huge financial toll on the nation 's lucrative petroleum industry. Connecticut-sized Kuwait contains around 9 percent of the world 's aggregate demonstrated oil stores, and petroleum incomes represent 95 percent

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