Battle for the Gulf - A Dark & Frightening Picture

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This film begins on August 2nd, 1990—the day Iraq invaded Kuwait. Republican Guard tanks sealed off the city while Iraqi special-forces seized government buildings. The advancing Iraqis met little resistance. The Emir had stood down his army to avoid provoking Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The biggest questions for the U.S. were whether Hussein would stop at the borders of Kuwait or go into Saudi Arabia and move down to the oil fields. For Arab leaders, the biggest question was whether they could resolve the situation without involving outside forces. The U.S. President, George H.W. Bush, dispatched his Defense Secretary Dick Cheney to Saudi Arabia. Cheney and his high-level delegation had to convince the Saudi rulers, who had never allowed U.S. troops on their soil that they could soon become another Kuwait if they didn’t allow U.S. forces to come to their aid. Soon more than 250,000 troops arrived in Saudi Arabia from the U.S., Britain, France, and Egypt—the beginnings of a coalition of 30 countries.