Saddam Hussein

Iraq’s decision to invade Iran was reflective of President Saddam Hussein’s desire to seize the Shatt al-Arab waterways and the oil producing province of Khuzestan and topple the Khomeini regime pursuant to his fears of Iranian hegemony and his aspirations of asserting Iraq as the pre-eminent Arab state. Within…

that come into play. On September 11th 2001, destruction of the Twin Towers in New York was caused by Foreign radicals. Almost 3000 US citizens lives were cut to a screeching halt. The country was furious and wanted action taken. The Iraq leader Saddam Hussien had very close ties to Al Qaeda(The Taliban).The United States believed that Iraq was creating and stock piling weapons of…

In early August of 1990, Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq, ordered the occupation and invasion of its neighbor, Kuwait. In result of Hussein’s order, Egypt and Saudi Arabia called on Western nations including the United States to interfere. Hussein confronted United Nations Security Council demands to depart from Kuwait by mid-January 1991, and the Persian Gulf War had started with an enormous U.S.-led air offensive known as an Operation Desert Storm. Also, after 42 days of fierce…

In a broadcasted speech from Bush, he states that, “Iraq is a part of the war on terror. It’s a country that trains terrorists. It’s a country that could arm terrorists. Saddam Hussein and his weapons are a direct threat to this country.” He found a way to tricked the US citiziens into believing that Iraq was linked to 911 and that their country has weapon of mass distruction. “In the USA Today” article, it was stated that…

The United States has been considered the world’s police for more than one hundred years. The founding father’s originally sought to keep American interest secular and to be solely concerned with it’s own well being. World events since that time have caused the United States to involve itself in the affairs of other countries, some for the benefit of that country and its people and others for U.S. interests. President Roosevelt’s Monroe Doctrine “asked the Europeans not to increase their…

in Ukraine, the current ISIS crisis, and the major involvement other countries around the globe have put into the conflicts. In early August of 1990, the leader of Iraq Saddam Hussein called for the attack on Kuwait. The United States and other countries around the world were called on to intervene the situation. Saddam Hussein pulled troops from Kuwait by the middle of January 1991. The beginning of the…

Geographic Advantages, Disadvantages, and Natural Resources of Iraqi Kurdistan The purpose of this research is to identify the distinct geographic advantages and disadvantages Iraqi Kurdistan currently possess in order to develop strategies for resource sharing, stability, governance and regional stability to a unified Iraq. The primary focus of selecting key geographic advantages and disadvantages is to have the ability to apply one or all of the lessons learned to effect change in Iraq and the…

The Bush administration, before 2003, had reasons to believe that Hussein possessed WMDs. Prior to the Iraq war, in the decade following the Gulf war and the Iran-Iraq war, the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq had been imposed several resolutions by the United Nations for its offensive against Kuwait, as well as, for the regime’s violations of human rights against Iranian citizens and…

crisis presented itself to the United States; this crisis is now a piece of America’s history. Towards the beginning of 1990, Saddam Hussein gave his army strict orders. Once the orders were given, Saddam vigorously spread his army across the border of Kuwait. Iraq’s army was very well equipped at this time and more than prepared to cause major damage and inflict war. Hussein was the well-known dictator of Iraq. People knew him as being intimidating, irrational, and a lover of war. Iraq was very…

As many Americans consider themselves patriotic many still regret some of the actions the United States. One of the biggest regretted wars was the Iraq War (2003-11) during the Bush Administration. Why was there a war in Iraq one might ask? The Bush Administration based its rationale for war principally on the assertion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and that Saddam's government posed an immediate threat to the United States and its coalition allies. Of course some might…