Gulf War One

• August 2, 1990-February 28, 1991
• Led by the United States as told by the UN
• wanted to free Kuwait
• Operation Desert Storm is the name of the airland operations
• Operation Desert Sheild protected Saudi Arabia
• 12 countries sent naval forces to help
• before the war the US sent economic and military aid to Iraq
• possibilty of attack on Saudi Arabia

 US planes flying over burning oil fields that were set onfire by retreating Iraquis.

Gulf War II

• March 20, 2003
• GWB wanted to get the "weapons of mass destruction"
• concerns of terrorism
• today many nations are withdrawing troops
• Iraq was given many chances to stop making weapons they failed to comply
• GWB declared to war won May of 2003
• still being fought today
• Saddan Hussein was captured December of 2003
• many civilians fighting now
• suicide bombers

American soldiers fighting in Iraq.

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