What happened in the Persian Gulf War?
The defining moment of the Bush administration’s foreign policy was the Persian Gulf War. In 1990, world leaders were stunned by the successful Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Charging that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s act was one of “blatant aggression,” Bush issued an executive order freezing Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets in the United States and cutting off trade with Iraq. The administration’s attention quickly turned to Saudi Arabia, which it feared might be Iraq’s next target. Four days later after the invasion of Kuwait and in response to the request of the Saudi King Fahd, Bush ordered 2,300 U.S. paratroopers, AWACS, and B-52 and F-11 aircraft to guard Saudi oil fields as part of Operation Desert Shield. The number of U.S. forces sent to Saudi Arabia went up to 400,000 by early 1991. Iraq’s conquest of Kuwait was declared “null and void” by the UN Security Council. It also imposed mandatory economic sanctions on Iraq and authorized the United States to use its ships in the region to uphold the embargo.
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