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The Gulf War
The 1st One!
Saddam Hussein
George Bush, Sr.
President after Reagan
Dick Cheney
Created a Plan
Colin Powell
Operation Desert Storm: Attack
IRAQ
Ground Attack… to liberate Kuwait
100 Hours
Fewer than 300 coalition
troops were killed
Cease-fire agreement: Feb.
1991
American troops returned
home!
Operation Iraqi
Freedom
2003
George W. Bush
The Leaders
Saddam Hussein
Left: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Right: Supreme commander General Tommy Franks
U.S. Military Leaders
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George Bushes (plural)
Finish what Dad started?
Are 9/11 and the Kuwait invasion of 1990
similar?
Quick defeats of the Iraqi army twice
2nd time went into Iraq
Oil interests?
You analyze and write your thoughts into
questions, comments or descriptions
Connections?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkOCI
fNQXP0&feature=related – Bush
announcing the invasion
 WMD:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/librar
y/news/iraq/2003/iraq-030205-powell-un17300pf.htm
 http://thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline/
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Back Again…
Sunni vs. Shiite
Why?
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Sunni Shiite Split: Interview with
Michigan proph from 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6572670&ps=rs
This is the story from 07
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=7332087
Sectarian Violence 2005-2007
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/09/06/world/middleeast/20070907_BUIL
DUP_MAIN_GRAPHIC.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1708843,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/09/06/world/middleeast/20070907_BUIL
DUP_DETAIL_GRAPHIC.html?neighborhood=overview
work -2007
 Find your own!
The Surge - 2007
Did the Surge
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Pull troops out by the end of 2010
◦ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072001416.html
Obama’s View
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Gallup Polls
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1633/Iraq.aspx
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/mood_
of_america_archive/war_on_terror/42_say_u_s_and_allies_winning_war_on_terror
Approval Ratings
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/870
3804.stm
The Future for Iraq and the US
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/display.cfm?id=796681
Research on Afghanistan from the Economist
1978-Today
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/afghanistan/in
dex.html?scp=4&sq=invasion%20of%20afghanistan&st=cse
New York Times: History of Afghanistan
Invasion of Soviet Union
 http://www.youtube.co
 Mujahedeen
m/watch?v=w8Vmx9Pg5
Js CNN video
 The US sent money to
the Mujahedeen
 Lessons we can learn:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8365187.stm
 Soviets
Taliban
 Mullah Omar
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1753
72,00.html
In their own words:
http://www.newsweek.com/2009/09/25/the-talibanin-their-own-words.html
Photos
http://photo.newsweek.com/content/photo/2009/9/p
hotos-the-taliban-in-their-own-words.html
Who are the Taliban:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1549285.stm
Al Qaeda “The Base”
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Brief Description
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6270000/new
sid_6270300/6270352.stm
Osama Documentary (Pre 9/11)
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Osama links:
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopi
cs/people/b/osama_bin_laden/index.html
New York Times topics page on Al-Qaeda
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLmG9mOxLn4
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/orga
nizations/a/al_qaeda/index.html
Osama Article Sept. 2001
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http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1000871,00.ht
ml
9/11
 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference
/timestopics/subjects/s/sept_11_2001/in
dex.html?scp=1spot&sq=9/11%20&st=cse
Approval Ratings and 1,000 Deaths
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-afghan-toll-20100529,0,5268387,print.story
US Death toll reaches 1,000, has approval ratings
 Aug. 2009 ABC poll http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Afghanistan/warafghanistan-abc-news-washington-post-poll/story?id=8363179
Obama Admin’s Plan
 http://www.nytimes.com
/2009/12/02/world/asia/
02prexy.html?_r=1
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/12/01/world/middleeast/1247465934592/p
resident-obama-s-speech-on-afghanistan.html
Speech on December 1, 2009
Future of Afghanistan
 Challenge of Poppy plants:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1970017,00.html?loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r3:c0.062132:b31263262&xid=Loomia
 Working with Hamid Karzai
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/08/our-man-in-afghanistan.html
 Al-Qaeda #3 killed
http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/2010/06/01/al-qaeda-no-3-reportedly-killed-in-missile-attack.html
 Summer offensive in Kandahar
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=796681&story_id=16068910