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A Dictator!

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Yes. If you go to desert-storm.com it will tell u eveything u need to know

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Which Gulf War? 1. Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 2. Operation Desert Storm Jan/Feb '91 3. Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003-

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Iraq led by Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
The 1991 Gulf War started as a swarm of Apache (Longbow)Gunships destroyed two of Saddam Huissain's radio stations. There were many Apaches invovled and the war lasted some years.

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The first Gulf war; Desert Shield and Desert Storm, were very justified. Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait, and terrorized the nation. Iraq threatened to attack Saudi Arabia. The war was necessary to defend Saudi Arabia and free Kuwait from a murderous tryant--Saddam Hussein of Iraq.

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The Bronze Star medal has been awarded to several thousand US service members during the Gulf War. Not possible to list them all.

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Sanctions reduced Iraq- The nation in the forefront of Middle Eastern secularism, which sported the finest schools, universities, hospitals and infrastructure and reduced it to rubble. This led the once popularist dictator into a frenzy, and with no money flowing into the nation the schools, hospitals and infrastructure wasn't rebuilt, the nation starved, got dumber and cancer rates from 'depleted' uranium went through the roof- now with no jobs in the country, because theres no money to pay with you might as well join the army/republican guard/Baath party and tow the party line because that was really the only profitable thing to do in Iraq between then and now. A nation that hated America was now developed, the USAF mastered its bombing techniques it learned from Cologne, Hanoi, Nuremberg flattened the entire place and convinced the media that 'smart' bombs were the arsenal of the future, it was funny how surprised the American public was to see resistance in Iraq, considering they did destroy most of the dams, water supplies, destroyed sewage facilities in order to spread disease, destroyed hospitals, schools, oil wells in order to destabilize the country, and the least they could've done was overthrow Saddam while they were there, instead of not providing them with the money to rebuild in the hope that this would drive the Iraqi people into rebellion. Guess what, you need money to buy weapons in a dictatorship, no money = no weapons = no resistance. The list continues, that war has a lot of sh*t that went down in it, and let me tell you in 20 years time, when this will all be declassified you will find a lot of inconsistencies with the conflict, whatever you do don't sit there shaking your head saying 'conspiracy theorist' or 'liberal' or 'lefties', because the same people were shaking their heads in Vietnam calling those who questioned the actions of the US government the same thing, and look at what were continuing to find out to this day (eg gulf of tonkin). The greatest implication of the Gulf War in today's context was the Gulf War 2, and don't you dare hail it as a success, 11,000 civilians dead, 45,000 Iraqi soldiers died defending their country from an illegal invasion is not the price to pay to overthrow a regime, starving millions and killing hundreds of thousands over a ten year period was a worse one. The implications of the Gulf War were detrimental for world peace and like Vietnam we will suffer from it for the next 25-30 years, it really brought to light what the US government was prepared to do to lower the price of the black gold Wow. Crosley left this little bit out of his emotional tirade, so I thought I'd share it: The people of Kuwait are enjoying freedom once again after being liberated by a UN sanctioned international coalition from an illegal invasion.

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Date August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991. See: Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988

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Since it started with the invasion of Kuwait I would have to say Iraq but if your looking at the coalition forces that drove Iraq out of Kuwait then it would be the U.N.

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The Iraqi government had long considered Kuwait a province of Iraq and its oil wealth could help to pay off the debts that Iraq had incurred from its Iran-Iraq War. Kuwait also had no means of resisting invasion. (Its army is tiny by comparison with Iraq's.)

It's been suggested that when drawing up the borders for when Iraq became semi autonomous like the British Dominions, the boundary's commission pencil that drew the line, when scaled up, meant two miles that should of been part of Iraq, was in Kuwait. But Iraq didn't stop at that.

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Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini & Iraq's Saddam Hussein

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Operation Desert Storm (Jan/Feb 1991) completed it's mission of removing Iraqi Forces from Kuwait, quickly, and with minimal US casualties (less than 200 fatalities).

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United States of America and Great Britain.

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The first gulf war in 1990/1991 was caused by Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait on 2 August 1990, and taking over that country. Many human rights violations were reported, and we adviced him that he needed to get out by 16 Jan 1991 or face a US led attack.

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country:The ground offensive was in Kuwait and Iraq, however there was also the Battle of Khafji in Saudi Arabia, when Iraq captured the Saudi city of Khafji.

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Following uprisings in the north and south, Iraqi no-fly zones were established to help protect the Shi'ite and Kurdish groups in South and North Iraq, respectively. These no-fly zones (originally north of the 36th parallel and south of the 32nd parallel) were monitored mainly by the United States and the United Kingdom, though France also participated. Combined, they flew more sorties over Iraq in the eleven years following the war than were flown during the war. These sorties dropped bombs nearly every other day against surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft guns which engaged the patrolling aircraft. However, the greatest amount of bombs was dropped during two sustained bombing campaigns: Operation Desert Strike, which lasted a few weeks in September 1996, and Operation Desert Fox, in December 1998. Operation Northern Watch, the no-fly zone covering the Kurds, allowed the population to focus on developing security and infrastructure, which was reflected after Saddam's fall in 2003 by a much more progressive and sustainable region (when compared to the rest of the country following Operation Iraqi Freedom). Operation Southern Watch, on the other hand, was not successful in providing the Shi'ite population the same opportunity. Widespread infrastructure destruction during the ground war hurt the Iraqi population. Years after the war, electricity production was less than a quarter of its pre-war level. The destruction of water treatment facilities caused sewage to flow directly into the Tigris River, from which civilians drew drinking water, resulting in widespread disease. Funds provided by Western nations to help combat the problem were diverted instead to maintaining Saddam's military control over the country. Economic sanctions were kept in place following the war, pending a weapons inspection with which Iraq never fully cooperated as it accused the UN inspectors of spying (something which was later proven to be at least partially true). Iraq was later allowed to import certain products under the UN's Oil for Food program. A 1998 UNICEF report found that the sanctions resulted in an increase to 90,000 deaths per year. Many argue that the sanctions on Iraq and the American military presence in Saudi Arabia contributed to an increasingly negative image of the United States in the Arab world. A United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) on weapons was established, to monitor Iraq's compliance with restrictions on weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. Iraq accepted some and refused other weapons inspections. The team found some evidence of biological weapons programs at one site and non-compliance at many other sites. In 1997, Iraq expelled all U.S. members of the inspection team, alleging that the United States was using the inspections as a front for espionage; members of UNSCOM were in regular contact with various intelligence agencies to provide information on weapons sites back and forth. The team returned for an even more turbulent time period between 1997 and 1999; one member of the weapons inspection team, U.S. Marine Scott Ritter, resigned in 1998, alleging that the Clinton administration was blocking investigations because they did not want a full-scale confrontation with Iraq. In 1999, the team was replaced by UNMOVIC, which began inspections in 2002. In 2002, Iraq � and especially Saddam Hussein � became targets in the United States' War on Terrorism, leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by the United States and, to a lesser extent, the United Kingdom. The People's Republic of China (whose army in many ways resembled the Iraqi army) was surprised at the performance of American technology on the battlefield. The swiftness of the coalition victory resulted in an overall change in Chinese military thinking and began a movement to technologically modernize the People's Liberation Army. These things irritated Islamic Extremism, although it had already been there to start with, strong as ever. The change of face by Saddam's secular regime did little to draw support from Islamics groups. However, it, combined with the Saudi Arabian alliance with the United States and Saudi Arabia being seen as being on the same side of Israel dramatically eroded that regime's legitimacy. Activity of Islamics groups against the Saudi regime increased dramatically. The presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia, the invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent blockade were some of the grievances listed by Osama bin Laden in his 1998 Fatwa. In part to win back favor with Islamics groups Saudi Arabia greatly increased funding to those that would support the regime. Throughout the newly independent states of Central Asia the Saudis paid for the distribution of millions of Qur'ans and the building of hundreds of mosques for extremist groups. In Afghanistan the Saudi regime became a leading patron of the Taliban in that nation's civil war, and one of the few foreign countries to officially recognize the government.

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Gulf War casualty numbers are controversial. Coalition military deaths have been reported to be around 378, but the DoD reports that US forces suffered 147 battle-related and 235 non-battle-related deaths, plus one F/A-18 Hornet Navy pilot listed as MIA. The UK suffered 47 deaths, the Arab countries lost 39 men (18 Saudis, 10 Egyptians, 6 from the UAE, 3 Syrians, and 1 Kuwaiti), and France lost 2 men. The largest single loss of Coalition forces happened on February 25, 1991, when an Iraqi Al-Hussein missile hit an American military barrack in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.

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Because Iraq invaded Kuwait and Kuwait is an ally of the US. Iraq's invasion also was a major threat to Saudi Arabia and under no condition could the Western world allow such a concentration of the world oil reserves to be controlled by Saddam Hussein.

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My stepdad was in the Navy for Desert Storm. It started in Kuwait and the Iraqi forces were destroyed or pushed back to Iraq.

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it made it into one of the best countries in the middle east (added 2/8/2009) It also changed the population of the country from a very high population of Palestinian, Jordanian and stateless (i.e. Palestinian, undocumented) of around 700K pre Aug 2nd 1990 to 30-35,000 in March 1991. This is largely because of support of a percentage of the Palestinian population for the Iraqi regime. The Kuwaitis resented the abuse of what was seen as their hospitality and support of the Palestinian cause and (rightly, in many cases) felt betrayed. This shifted the nationality dynamic between pre and post war Kuwait. Westerners were afforded a higher status due to their contribution to liberation, and Jordanian/Palestinian's were either deported or left voluntarily, the few remaining being relegated to a lower position on the social scale.

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The war started when Iraq invaded Kuwait. This was seen as an aggressive action, and after attempts to restore peace, the UN approved a war. America, along with a coalition of other countries, decided to liberate Kuwait. There was also the matter that both of these countries had huge deposits of oil.

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US general Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. was 78 years old when he died on December 27, 2012 (birthdate: August 22, 1934).