Capturing Kuwait News Today

Neighbor. >> he has moved part of his one million man army to kuwait. he claims kuwait stabbed iraq in the back way overproducing the oil. >> then on august 2nd 1990 the iraqi strong man struck. capturing kuwait with overwhelming force. the united states drew a line in the sand massing soldiers in saudi arabia to halt iraqs march. at sea, an embargo choke off the flow of goods. hussein threatened. >> i shall say that whoever collides with iraq will find in front of him columns of dead bodies. >>...

42 past the hour. 25 years ago yesterday the first gulf war began. >> can you believe that? >> i cant. i cant. the conflict terrorized the tiny nation of kuwait and set iraq on the path to ruin and drew the united states into the region for what has been a quarter century of tension and turmoil. it was a conflict the united states neither wanted nor expected. in april 1990 iraqi president saddam hussein admitted for the first time he had chemical weapons, weapons he used before and threatened to...