INTA 2XXX Lecture 11: Lecture 11.docx
1 Mar 2013
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United states provided iraq with arms but secretly provided money and arms to iran in order to get hostages back. Iran-contra affair: us used some of the money from weapons sails to fund the contra"s a revolutionary group focused on undermining the government in nicaragua. Nationalism held sway over religion in the war shia iraqis supported iraq instead of mostly. Saddam hussein blamed many gulf nations for not supporting him during the war demanded. billion from kuwait and accused it of stealing oil: one month earlier, us had promised not to get involved in an arab-arab conflict\ See youtube video: 20th century battlefields gulf war (1991) The us goal was to destroy saddam"s communications through a coordinated air attack and then proceed to destroy his troops.
