20th Century Battlefields - 1991 Gulf War (Part 3/6)

Peter and Dan examine the United Nations-backed war to remove the forces of Saddam's Iraq from Kuwait.

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[AZ602WS]

I'm sort of confuse about the attack on Israel. Why Israel didn't want to fight back against Iraq???

[OlderG0ds]

@AZ602WS Israel did want to fight back. The US didn't want Israel to attack back because they thought it would break up the alliance between US and arab nations.

[14sJakeB190]

If I were Saddam I would have used Chemical weapons. I wonder why he didn't?

[OlderG0ds]

@14sJakeB190  1:36 says it all

[14sJakeB190]

@OlderG0ds

I really doubt the US would have nuked em.

Especially this last time around. What did Saddam have to loose?

This only proves Saddam didn't have chemical weapons.

[OlderG0ds]

@14sJakeB190 No. He did have chemical weapons and he did use them on the Kurds. He knew using them on USA would have severe repercussions. They certainly could have hit him with some tactical nukes.

Saddam might have been crazy but he wasn't stupid. And he probably didn't want to test the only country that's actually used nukes on another.

[thekingofthehill42]

WTF is wrong with you all. why do you have such a big fucking problem with Islam? What has Islam done to you? Al-Qaeda and the Taliban call their terrorism a holy war, but they are breaking all the laws of armed Jihad:

1. Don't destroy buildings

2. Only use it as a last resort

3. Don't kill women and children

Terrorists are not true Islam. They are assholes with no other intention than to kill and generally fuck up the world. Islam is completely against terrorism you teenage fucks

[nativenight77]

Seemed like hell

[Rushour717]

go to 6:00

[14sJakeB190]

@topperheartramada Like they already did, only later. 

[topperheartramada]

@14sJakeB190 Because then he would not have stood a chance of surviving the war. The Americans would have destroyed all of his army and executed him as a war criminal.

[topperheartramada]

@thekingofthehill42 Well when so many people stop breaking these 'laws' maybe we will stop fearing Islam. Google the number of Islamic terrorist attacks during the past decade and you will see what I'm talking about. I don't care if some Muslims have a different understanding of jihad than others. They are all Muslims as far as I'm concerned. They believe in Allah and all of Bin Laden's speeches are based on quotes from the Koran and the Hadith. So spare us the bullshit.

[polarbear1876]

@AZ602WS Israel did, but the U.S. convinced them not to in exchange for fighting back by proxy. Israel joining the fight against an Arab state could've given Hussein a PR advantage and forced Arab states to withdraw from the coalition.

[polarbear1876]

@14sJakeB190 He knew if he used them the American public would demand severe retaliation.

[gre8]

You cannot deny that Saddam's move on Israel was a really clever one. Thank God the Israelis didn't retaliate.

[Kenddrick]

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