Gulf War I (1991) vs. Gulf War II (2003)
The recent U.S. attack against Iraq reminds the world of a similar event not so long ago in the history of the world: in 1991, a U.S.-led attack against Iraq occurred, under the leadership of George H.W. Bush. More than a decade later, a U.S. president, son of G.H.W. Bush, led an offensive attack against Iraq on grounds of not following UN sanctions on the production of weapons of destruction. The war between the U.S. government and Saddam Hussein and his dictatorial government in Iraq has actually been going on for a decade now, although there are differences in the events that happened prior to each attack. This paper will analyze the differences and similarities that happened in the 1991 version of Gulf War with this year's declaration of U.S. attack against Iraq.
The Gulf War of 1991 occurred because of a series of events that led to an offensive action by Saddam Hussein and his military army, by which the allied nations of the U.S. took actions to prevent Hussein's attack on the Middle East nations. The first Gulf War happened because of a conflict between Iraq and Kuwait and United Arab Emirates (UAE). Hussein accused Kuwait and UAE of "flooding the oil market and costing Iraq billions in lost revenue" (Barber 2003). When talks about the issue failed on July 31, 1991, Iraq invaded Kuwait, resulting to Saddam's assault and seizure of power in Kuwait. Because of this course of action, U.S. And its allies planned a defensive action to free Kuwait from Saddam's rule and control. Four months after Iraq's continued invasion of Kuwait, the United Nations Security Council had authorized U.S. And its allies to remove and displace Iraq's power from Kuwait. Furthermore, the UNSC imposed a deadline that Iraq should be out of Kuwait on January 15, 1991. However, Iraq ignored the deadline, and even attacked neighboring nations like Israel with its Scud missiles (Frontline 2001). Thus, Saddam's resistance against UN sanctions resulted to the formulation...
Gulf War of 1991. The writer explores the history, the cause, and the war itself. The writer uses several sources to illustrate what the U.S. government bas dints decision to go to war on and how well received that decision was by the American public. As the U.S. gears up for a probable attack on Iraq American minds turn back the hands of time to 1991 and the Gulf War.
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The United States should propose economic and political incentives for Iraq to moderate its behavior and to increase our influence" (George Bush- the Persian Gulf War, 2008). The incentives included massive food exports to Iraq which was a huge benefit to American farmers. The administration resisted demands from many human rights activists in Congress to enforce sanctions against Iraq. And they dismissed Saddam Hussein's public threat to destroy half
1990 Gulf War, but, given the subsequent perspective of the U.S. external policy during the following years, the actions that followed, the current war in Iraq, with its own justifications, bring a new light into the Middle East problem and the U.S. involvement in the entire region. In 1990, George Bush had an excellent justification for an intervention in a region that had been, until then, an area of Soviet
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6). At home, though, the media can often be co-opted by being made to feel that public opinion would be against it if it reported something other than the prevailing public sentiment. After't he 9-11 attacks, the public wanted the perpetrators and their leaders punished, so the war in Afghanistan had the support of the public. By extension, the idea of the war on terror also had support, though
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