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The Gulf War

In the early morning of August the second 1990, Saddam Hussein and a fleet of tanks as well as 100,000 thousand troops invaded neighboring Kuwait with out provocation or warning. Iraq also had surface-to-surface missiles to take complete control of Kuwait; this all took place just hours after Saddam Hussein had assured neighboring countries that there would under no circumstances be an invasion. George Bush entered the Gulf War for the sole reason of recovering the oil and Kuwaiti Boolean that Saddam Hussein had stolen. President George Bush's goal in entering the war was to recover the stolen oil from the Iraqi's, and ensure that it continues to be sold at a reasonable amount by the Kuwaiti's, rather than have the prices raised or even the threat of being cut off by Saddam Hussein; there was also an extreme threat that the Iraqi's possessed nuclear weapons which would endanger all bordering countries.
The President said that anything less than the full......

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