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War in The Gulf On August 2, 1990 the world was surprised when the small country of Kuwait was seized by Iraq. The invasion was led by President Saddam Hussein. In only three days and over 100,000 troops, Saddam and his army had taken control of Kuwait City. When he took over Kuwait City there was no more use for the president and his family, so he put them into exile. He also took over the vast quantities of oil. For months, heads of state and diplomats from many countries tried to persuade Saddam to remove his troops from Kuwait and leave the country peacefully. His stubbornness convinced the United States and the United Nations to use military force against Saddam and his men. On January 16, 1991 United States and other United Nation coalition forces destroyed Iraq’s industrial and war making facilities, crushed the Iraqi army, and liberated Kuwait in just forty-three days. In the darkness of Thursday, August 2, 1990, about 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed the border into their neighboring country Kuwait. When the soldiers marched across the boarder, it scared the small amounts of Kuwait’s boarder guards. The boarder guards were Kuwait’s only lines of defense against the strong Iraqi army. (Nardo, 28) The soldiers were