ABDUSSALAM UMAR ABEDO, Ph.D
Department of History and International Studies
Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State
Abstract
The first Gulf war 1990-1991 and the second Gulf war 2003 was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the USA on the 2nd August, 1990 to 28th February, 1991. It was triggered by Iraq invasion of Kuwait on the 2nd August, 1990. The Gulf War, also known as the Persian Gulf War or Operation Desert Storm, began as a result of Saddam Hussein’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait, which he claimed to be formerly part of Iraqi territory. Some Arabs State like Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the USA and other Western powers to intervene. Saddam Hussein plays into their conspiracy by refusing the United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait. By mid-January 1991, Operation Desert Storm began with a massive USA-led air offensive. After 42 days of relentless attacks, USA President George H.W. Bush declared a cease-fire on the 28th February 1991; by that time, most Iraqi forces in Kuwait had either surrendered or fled. By 2003, the United States and Britain concocted lies accusing Saddam Hussein of developing weapons of mass destruction despite the insistence of the UN inspectors clearing the Iraqi regime of such crime. The pack of lies was justified to invade the Ba’ath regime of Iraq. The fall of Saddam Hussein pave way for other Islamic fundamentalist like the al-Qaida and Islamic state which altered the Iraqi’s nation stability. The globalist powers aim was in two dimension one; protection of Israel state; political domination and economic flow of trade in the entire fertile land. Hence, under the guise of fighting terrorism American policy continued to struggle with other Islamic resistance groups not just in Iraq but in Syria as well. This paper aims to discuss the origin and the consequences of the Gulf War and how the so-called police of the world, as represented by the USA, usually exhibit double standards in pursuing its interests in the Middle-East