Desert Storm: From Beginning to End
You probably remember what you were doing when the Twin Towers were attacked, and some remember the day that Pearl Harbor was hit by surprise, but I’m sure that if asked what you were doing on the night of August 1, 1990, your reply would be a little more ambiguous than on the other dates. On that night, Iraqi forces that had been drawn up to the border of Kuwait for supposedly “routine” purposes invaded the small oil generating country and took over the capital. You also may not have felt as personally affected by this news as you would of news about a terrorist attack on New York City, but the men and women that made up the 2,048,622 man US Armed forces did. They knew that for a man to invade the world’s largest oil producing nation and take over 24% of all oil collection of the world, he would clearly have to be insane. Indeed, they were correct. That man, Saddam Hussein, was not of sound mind, and his actions on the days of August 1 and 2nd of 1990 plainly support this insanity. His 140,000-man invasion of the country was a bold move for a man to make, and he knew that the US, the world’s most rapid oil consuming nation, would not let it go. Over the course of that year and the next, Hussein’s military incursion along with his
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Approximate Word count = 2392
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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