Before the last Gulf war, one poll asked those who disapproved of the then Bush administration's policy why they did so.
The U.S.-led air assault that launched the Gulf War began one day after the expiration of a United Nations deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait.
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"We have more cruise missiles in the area than were fired during the Persian Gulf War, " said one military official.
Mr Bush could lose support rapidly if things go badly, but he has also made sure that any victory will not be a passing one, as in the Gulf war.
One possible diplomatic payback to Spain would be hosting a second Middle East Peace Conference, similar to the one it hosted after the first Gulf War in 1991.
Though it backed the Americans strongly in the first Gulf war, in 1991, Turkey has since bitterly regretted one outcome: the consolidation of Kurdish self-rule in northern Iraq.
In the former instance, Lynas reminds me of a young Sir Mark Sykes carving the Persian Gulf into sovereign political states in the wake of World War One without recognizing the most salient assumptions implicit in those political boundaries and the vast consequences they would create.
At one end is a massive invasion on a Gulf War scale, perhaps an attack on three sides involving hundreds of thousands of troops.
Turkey desperately needs such assistance to cope with the lingering, devastating effects on its economy of the last Gulf War and to cushion it from the costs of the next one.
Turkey desperately needs such assistance to cope with the lingering, devastating effects on its economy of the last Persian Gulf war and to cushion it from the costs of the next one.
Al Gore (D-TN), the Senate signalled that it, at least, had learned one of the most important lessons of the Gulf War: It is better to be defended, even imperfectly, against ballistic missile attack than to be defenseless against it.
And of course, that's one of the reasons that back in 1991 in the first Gulf War, we really never seriously entertained the idea of taking down the regime, which would have involved going to Baghdad, occupying that big Arab country.
President Bush, who was in office during the first Gulf War, said he "mourned the loss" of Gen Schwarzkopf, "one of the great military leaders of his generation".
He did this after the 1987 stock crash, the Gulf War, the Mexican peso crisis, the Asian financial crises and the failure of one of the largest hedge funds.
One reason for the United States' great success in the Persian Gulf War was the willingness of Saudi Arabia to allow American forces to use bases on its soil.
He was one of only 10 Democrats in 1991 who voted to go to war in the Persian Gulf.
The international development secretary, Clare Short, was one of three front-benchers who resigned over Labour's support for the first Gulf War in 1991.
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In the 1991 Gulf war, the failure to find Iraq's Scuds before they were shot off to Israel and Saudi Arabia was one of the few military failures of the campaign.
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