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This 15 page paper discusses some of the public policy issues of the Gulf War, advantages of the combatants, and environmental problems arising from the conflict. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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long, involved and unpleasant association between the U.S. and the Middle East, the end of which is not yet known. This paper considers the main public policy issues of this
conflict, who had advantages and what the environmental impact of the war is for the Middle East. Discussion We turn first to public policy issues. A bit of
background is helpful in understanding the conflict. For years, the United States had supported the Shah of Iran, but in 1978 his government was overthrown by Shiite forces led by
the Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran was established as an Islamic republic (Rushefsky, 2002). The Shiites, who are a majority in Iran are a minority in neighboring Iraq, and apparently fearing
that the revolution would "spill over" into other Middle Eastern nations, Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 (Rushefsky, 2002, p. 128). The war raged until 1988; Iran is a much larger
country but Iraq had better weapons, and it was a bloodbath; Iranians in particular were decimated (Rushefsky, 2002). In order to finance the war, Iraq had to borrow money from
other countries, in particular Kuwait; the U.S. though ostensibly neutral, was in fact favoring Iraq (Rushefsky, 2002). The war ended with neither side a clear winner, but with Iraq
heavily in debt, a debt that Kuwait refused to forgive (Rushefsky, 2002). In addition, Iraq and Kuwait share a rich oil field, though much more of it lies under Kuwait
(Rushefsky, 2002). Iraq claimed that Kuwait was working the field too rapidly, which was depleting the field far too quickly and thus "depriving Iraq of much needed revenue" (Rushefsky, 2002).
The two nations were also in dispute over two islands in the Persian Gulf; and finally, Iraq claimed that Kuwait was merely an Iraqi province, not an independent state (Rushefsky,
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