We continued blog discussion: here are notes: Saddam Hussein ruled from 1979 to 2003 bathe party fell apart after we invaded. The war began when Iraq invaded Iran. caused by border disputes, fears of shia muslim insurgency among Iraq long suppressed shia majority influenced by the Iranian Revolution Saddam Hussien was Sunni Muslim, Iraq wanted to replace Iran as the dominate Persian Gulf State wanted Iran's oil fields, Iraq did not do to well. War finally ended with a UN ceasefire, nothing really changed as a result of the war. Genocide against the kurds. series of military and gas attacks against the kurdish civilian population of rural northern iraq. conducted between 1986 and 1989. Persian Gulf War4e1990 1991UN forced Iraq out of Kuwait By march 1991. NO fly zone in Iraq
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