Battle for the Gulf - The 19th Province

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The UN imposed sanctions and called on Saddam Hussein to withdraw from Kuwait. Instead he sent in more than 300,000 soldiers. Kuwait’s wealth was systematically plundered by the looting of houses to the ransacking of the Kuwait Central Bank. Hussein ruled Kuwait as he’d always ruled Iraq, with torture and terror. One of the challenges for the government in exile was to provide the resistance in Kuwait with money. This was a complicated procedure, but proved very effective. But before any military action by the U.S., President George H.W. Bush wanted to bring along the American public. So the U.S. administration began a PR campaign to persuade the American public that military action was required. In an effort to avoid war, there was a last-minute meeting in Geneva with the Iraqis. But Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, had offered no last-minute compromise. Within days of the failure of the talks in Geneva, the Allies started air attacks on Iraq.