very quickly. Ships were dispatched to the Persian Gulf, and oil prices shot up as and oil

embargo was placed against Iraq. The U.S. government told us that Saddam Hussein was

poised to invade the neighboring countries, including Saudi Arabia, and the worlds oil

supply was threatened. George Bush launched operation "Desert Shield" in which a

coalition of many nation's armies gathered in the deserts of Saudi Arabia bordering Iraq

As the war began, the coalition of national armies assembled in Saudi Arabia took

a few SCUD missile shots fired from Iraq. When the troops started moving in, Sadam's

army turned and tried to get out of Kuwait. The Iraqi "Republican Guard" stayed safely

back, far from the fighting. Several hundred U.S. troops died in the brief battle, and ten's

of thousands of Iraqis died. Many, if not most, of the U.S. deaths were the result of

At this point, George Bush decided to bring the troops home. UN weapons

inspectors converged on Iraq and the coalition armies dispersed. Perhaps the most hyped

war in history was now over. It was almost certainly the

another report showed that on 297 cases of accidental exposure among workers

return from the Gulf War. But she did not understand that congenital means "from or at

and returned to their normal everyday lives. Memories of the threat of chemical and

rate of three to six times that of the normal civilian population. But the data Marcus had

concentrate, choking sensation, depression, lightheadedness, hot and cold flashes, labored

government. Organizations began to form in response to rising concern over the plight of

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