The Gulf WarIn the early morning of August the second1990, Saddam Hussein and a fleet of tanks as well as 100,000 thousand troopsinvaded neighboring Kuwait with out provocation or warning.
Iraq also hadsurface-to-surface missiles to take complete control of Kuwait; this alltook place just hours after Saddam Hussein had assured neighboring countriesthat there would under no circumstances be an invasion. George Bush enteredthe Gulf War for the sole reason of recovering the oil and Kuwaiti Booleanthat Saddam Hussein had stolen. President George Bush’s goal in enteringthe war was to recover the stolen oil from the Iraqi’s, and ensure thatit continues to be sold at a reasonable amount by the Kuwaiti’s, ratherthan have the prices raised or even the threat of being cut off by SaddamHussein; there was also an extreme threat that the Iraqi’s possessed nuclearweapons which would endanger all bordering countries. The President said that anything less thanthe full cooperation of the Iraqi troops and tanks would result in immediateaction by the U. S troops in his address to the people. Bush also demandedthat full restoration of the Kuwaiti government must also take place ratherthan the puppet regime that was established by Saddam Hussein after histake over.
This was one of the many incidents that lead President GeorgeBush to take action against the Iraqi’s due to their involvement in thePersian Gulf crisis. The United Nations placed sanctions uponIraq, which lead to the starvation of one point two million Iraqi civilians. It was also the cause of the famine rate amongst children from the agefive and below to rise almost one quarter from its rate the previous year. 960,000 women and children dead due to the sanctions brought forth by theUN. The sanctions, which were brought forth, involved the immediate holdput on all food, clothing, and medicines from entering Iraq.
The pointsof the sanctions were to weaken the strength of Saddam Hussein and histask forces. In July of 1997 the U. S government held a press conferencestating that it was indeed true that the figure was actually well overone point two million Iraqi civilians were killed due to the sanctions. This was one of the major set backs in the campaign of President Bush amongthe people. Another fact that set President Bush backwas the belief of the people that it was not worth putting the lives ofAmerican troops on the line for oil. The tabloids headlined most nationalpapers with “no blood for oil.
” Bush found himself so wrapped up in thewhole oil dispute that his own people was opposing his actions for thefear of losing their loved ones over a mere oil dispute. Among the public and in the eyes of themedia the President seemed truly sympathetic; it seemed as though he wasshowing great sympathy for the people of Kuwait. Bush told the people thatthe hatred of Saddam Hussein could possibly and would spread causing worldwar three. The President also warned that if the crisis went on withoutinterruption that eventually the United States would be forced into takingaction, as the madness created by Saddam Hussein would spread.
President Bush also explained to the peoplethat dealing with Saddam Hussein could very well is dealing with the nextAdolph Hitler. Both Hussein and Hitler both look at the life of othersthrough the same perspective: The meaning of life compares nothing to thatof having the greatest power in the world. Neither Hitler nor Hussein caredfor the people of their prospective lands, they cared for the benefit oftheir personal crusade as well as attempt at being the first ever to controlthe world. Hitler tried to accomplish this feat by just shear force.
SaddamHussein tried to achieve his goal of supremacy by controlling one of theworlds richest and much needed resources, the Kuwaiti oil. So thereforethere was a great threat to all other nations that Saddam Hussein wouldbe the next Adolph Hitler thus to act fast would prevent a possible worldwar three from ever occurring as well as a possible threat of world dominationfrom Saddam Hussein. President Bush and other members of theUN had to worry about the threat of Hussein using germ warfare to intimidatesurrounding countries into surrendering there nation power to him and hisarmy. Germ warfare would take care of all those who opposed him and orresisted his reign as ruler. Therefore the threat of all surrounding areasgiving into Hussein and having him become the ultimate power that Hitlerhad become it was very necessary for Bush to intervene in the Gulf andsend in the American eighty-second Airborne Division as well as key unitsof the United States Air Force to assist the Saudi Government in the defenseof their homeland. The members of the UN realized that therewas a great threat of Saddam Hussein attacking Saudi Arabia, therefore;it was reasonable to move the air units in, there was no question thatSaddam Hussein wanted to control the middle-east, and all the oil salesand trade through out Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
With the powerover one of the worlds greatest and richest resources Saddam Hussein knewthat he could count on the fact that he had the power to cut any countryhe liked out of the circle and prevent them from purchasing his oil. Healso reserved the right to raise the price at any given time for any givenreason. With the sale of the vast amount of Kuwaiti oil Hussein had allthe money need to have the most powerful germ warfare weapons as well aschemical and biological weapons to pressure the resisting countries. Therefore George Bush intervened in theGulf War for the sole purpose of saving the Kuwaiti oil as well as to protectthe Saudi’s who requested to extra defense of the UN and the United States.
Bush also intervened in the war to protect the American troops that hadbeen sent over to the Middle East to assist the Saudi Government in fendingoff the possible attacks from Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi army. The threatof chemical warfare, the possible attacks on the Saudi’s, the aggressionact, Hitler syndrome, Kuwaiti oil, and finally the disregard by SaddamHussein for the sanctions placed on Iraq. Causing the deaths of many ofhis people were all key factors, which contributed to George Bush and theUnited Nations entering the Gulf War and battling, Saddam Hussein.
