Desert Shield and Desert Storm were events that affected the entire world for many years. When Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi army invaded the small country of Kuwait it would change the way the world viewed Iraq forever. Iraq's excuse for invading the smaller country was not one that most of the world bought into. Iraq needed to either leave Kuwait on their own, or be removed by force. The world could not sit by and watch Hussein take over the oil reserves of Kuwait. President Bush was forced to remove the Iraqi army from Kuwait. America had to be the police of the world in order to keep Saddam Hussein from controlling nearly all of the oil reserves in the Middle East. It was not something that America wanted to do, but it was something that they had to do.
Saddam Hussein had spent nearly eight years in the 1980's fighting a war against their neighboring country of Iran. This war cost Iraq billions of dollars over the years. Iraq's neighboring countries had supplied Iraq with loans......

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Title: Desert Storm
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