Friday, November 5th

!News!

-Hurricane hitting Haiti.

-Nothing else going down really in world.

Reviewish thing;

*Iraq invaded Kuwait.

*Invaded Kuwait for oil.

*Before attack: Operation Desert Steal which started hatred because they thought we were taking them over.

*After thatwar a lot of terroist attacks.

*Lasted about a month.

*We won -

Effects of Operation Desert Storm. - Taylor

-Deformed babies from a gas during the war that pregnant women inhaled.

-We denied using Uranium.

-Few casualties.

-WMD - weapons of mass descruction - germs, diseases, chemicals, nuclear, etc

Iraq Invasion 2003 - Kevin

-In 2003 spring.

-Known as Iraqi Freedom.

Humanity: Help people

Bush Doctrine: Need to go to war before attacked in this case. Didnt have nuclear weapons yet..so go there before they have them so it is easier. Preventing a bigger war.

Secruity: Weapon inspectors because we thought they had things or were going to.

-Combined forces were U.S., UK. and Australia and Poland and eventully Japan.

-Iraqi side: Iraqi armed forces, Surrein and Mujahideen (arab fighters).

-Month before invasion there was a huge rally against it -- all over world people protested.

Taking Break and doing Trivia! :)

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