assigned blog #6

the total fatalities of the war was around 20,000 and 35,000. (the exact number is unknown) A lot soldiers reported that they had illnesses following the Gulf War. (later called Gulf War syndrome or Gulf War illness) There were arguments over if the illnesses were really from the war. ( somethings people thought caused the illness: exposure to depleted uranium, chemical weapons, anthrax vaccines given to deploying soldiers)

Iraq used to be one of the best standards of living, but they are now in the bottom 20%. After just 10 years of sanctions) Basic medicines for children wern't available, so disease and cancer rates shot up. Especially because there was no chlorine to purify the water supply from the bombs. The Iraqi no-fly zones  (a set of two separate no-fly zones) were created by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the war to protect the Kurds (Iranic people mostly in the Middle East) in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south.

 

 

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