We got our assigned blog 6 topic.. We had to pick a country and then write about the country. Then we went over the europe maps.
Afghanistan war- 8 months after his into his term 9/11 happened, and that lead to the war on terror and the war in iraq, We are helping them with education and economy and heath care. We helped build there infrastructure.
War in Iraq-
Pursain Gulf War-
- Desert Shield- August '90
- Iraq invaded Kuwait because they thought that Kuwait was stealing money from oil production. So the United States sent troops to Saudi Arabia. To send a message to Suddam Hussan to tell him to pull out.
- Desert Storm- the invasion of Iraq to Kawait
Saddam Hussein background-
- born April 20th 1937 in Iraq
- became involved in polotics
- He fled to Egypt because tried to kill someone
- he was also a school teacher
- He was the 5th president
- He came to power in 1979-2003
- We captured him in 2003 but the Iraqi people didn't kill him until 2006
- helped economy in Iraq (positive)
- he had a colt of personality (he thought he was god like)
- during the 1980s we supported Saddam Hussein.
- Saddam Hussein gassed some people in the north part of his country
Between the 2 wars between us and Iraq , Iraq had to follow 2 rules, 1 one weapons inspectors and the other one was a no fly zone. Saddam Hussein wanted people to think that they had weopons.
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