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Act Now against Saddam

Throughout history dictators such as the King George III, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Nikita Khrushchev have risen to power and filled the world with fear. Each time one of them came to power, the world sat back and watched as his power in his own government rose, and eventually bringing the world into war. Yet, again, our world is facing a similar rise of power, and yet, again, we are watching with no intervention.
On August 24, 1990, Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait against warnings from the United Nations that invasion would be intolerable. Three days later President Bush declares that the invasion “will not stand” and on the 8th of August the first U.S.A.F. fighter planes arrive in Saudi Arabia. Five months later, Operation Desert Storm commenced, with the objective of ejecting Iraq from Kuwait. After Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces were defeated in late February, the U.N. passed several sanctions, and ordered Iraq to disarm itself.
On February 27, 1933 in Ge...

Posted by: Quentina Green

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