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During the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 259 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 361 were wounded. Also, and estimated 39 Iraqi aircraft were shot down, and 120 tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed. In addition, 4 Iraqi ships were sunk. Overall, Iraqi losses were light.

War in the Gulf happened in 1993.

The Gulf War was also known as Operation Desert Storm. The sides of the war were the US, Kuwait, UK, Saudi Arabia, France, Canada, Egypt, Syria, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates against Iraq.

Saddam Hussein may at one time have had ambitions to have nuclear weapons, but he never had them. By the time he was ousted he had no significant chemical weapons. He did have a supergun designed by Gerald Bull.

That is essentially true, although the motives for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait were a bit more complicated than that. Iraq had borrowed billions of dollars from Kuwait, to help finance its war with Iran, and it did not want to repay that loan. There were disputes about oil wells on the border between Iraq and Kuwait. It is also true that in an earlier historical period, Kuwait used to be part of Iraq, so it could be argued that Iraq was asserting a historical ownership of that region. And aside from all that, Saddam Hussein announced that his purpose for invading Kuwait was to (as he put it) liberate Palestine. I interpret this to mean, he wished to build a large empire which would then have enough military power to take on Israel. So there were lots of motives. But basically yes, Iraq wanted Kuwait's rich oil supply. And the rest of the world objected to this violation of the UN charter. From our current perspective in 2013, it is hard to be sure if this was really such a good idea. Perhaps we should have just let Iraq have Kuwait.

The US used depleted uranium to clad the ammo, hence the round of ammo would revolve faster and penetrate deeper. They also put a coat of depleted uranium on the third layer of the tanks, particularly the M1A1/2, to protect from penetration.

the explosion on the ship USS cole in 2000

Russian Flat Face, Spoon Rest, and Squat Eye stations.

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Some old Vietnam bombers conducted some sorties, but primarily the F14 Tomcats, F16 Falcons, F 15 Eagles needed some target practice too, they all had to rush in and get some experience before the enemy surrendered so quickly. The campaign ended within 40 days with the ground offensive only lasting 100 hours. Wasn't really enough time for everyone to test out their new weapons.

Because, the mandate was to liberate Kuwait, not overthrow Iraq. Because our Arab partners in the war might not agree with the overthrow of Iraq. Because the USA hoped that Iraqis would overthrow Saddam Hussein without our help. Because we didn't want to get bogged down in another Vietnam type quagmire in Iraq in 1991. Because it would have taken a lot more money, soldiers and equipment to overthrow Iraq in 1991 than it took to liberate Kuwait.

Captured and released, or still held as prisoners (hostages)? A few years ago, at least one US servicemember was be-headed (executed) on world wide television by terrorists.

The Persian Gulf War, which lasted from August 2, 1990 -- February 28, 1991, commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of the State of Kuwait.

Both are dead. Saddam Hussein was executed December 30, 2006, and Osama bin Laden was shot May 1, 2011.

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The CIB is a US Army badge. Only US Naval Forces were involved during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988.

36 countries. If you mean the countries helped Iraq during the 8 year war with Iran

George W bush went to war with Saddam Husein because

1. Hussein killed thousands of people in the 9/11 attacks

2. George w. bush thought they had nuclear weapons so he thought that he would send a whole load of troops over there to fight 4 no reason many of them killed

3. Bush wanted to kill Husein because of the attacks

That they had a weak military plan and that the navy wouldn't be strong over seas

to protect their oil interests. (apex)

not to raise taxes

Free world won Korea (ROK still exists). Communists won Vietnam.

Iraq is a law enforcement question. Can Iraq police their own country?

If you think it's a war...ask yourself "what country is fighting what country?" If the answer is "you don't know", then you've just answered it. No country is at war there. It's a stability problem...examples: Whose in charge? Where's the cops? Whose the President? Whose the Governor? Where's their court system? Where's their military?

Why is everybody running around with weapons and shooting them off into the air while people are trying to go to work or eat dinner in their living rooms? Try that in America and law enforcement will be there within minutes. Why isn't it happening in Iraq? Because they have a stability problem.