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The lexus december to remember sales event is here. lease the 2016 es350 for $349 a month for 36 months and we'll make your first month's payment. see your lexus dealer. 25 years ago the first gulf war began. >> also what has been a quarter century of tension and turmoil. >> in just a moment their thoughts but first a look back at how it all played out. >> it was a conflict the united states neither wanted nor expected. in april 1990, iraqi president hussein admitted for the first time he had chemical weapons, weapons he used before and threatened to use again setting the region on edge.

Shape. after we left and barack obama pulled out it was leaving the no stay behind force and it created a vacuum. i think that was a significant problem. >> was going into iraq in 2003 the original? >> no. >> was the world in more power with hussein? >> no. >> gi dhe was threatened with w

Led to a 45 day dead line set by the u.s. security cancel authorizing military force for the second time in its history. con capitol hill members clammered to have their say. >> only congress and the administration. >> legislatures okayed the decision. when final diplomatic efforts failed, it was a tested will between hussein and the international coalition. on january 16th, 1991, allied forces joined the fight. >> as i report to you, air attacks are underway against military targets in iraq. >> operation desert storm was in full force. the steady string ol of allied

Hussein's rhetoric only heated up that summer weakened by a drawn out conflict with iran. >> he has moved part of his 1 million man army to kuwait. then on august 7, 1990, the iraqi strong men struck captured kuwait. the united states drew a line in the sand. an embargo choked up the flow of goods. iraq was cornered and hussein threatened. >> i shall say whoever collides with iraq will find in front of them colonies of dead bodies. >> it is truly iraq against the majority of the arab world. iraq against the rest of the world. >> months of careful diplomacy

Missl missles. planes skouerred the skies. >> hussein fired missles. the rockets had conventional, not biological or chemical war heads. >> after 42 days of bombing, his army was broken. >> it would have been our intention to take iraq and destroy the country and overrun the country. >> the ground wars end was as sudden as its beginning. they made 100 hours. of the 540,000 deployed 180 died. only later would a mystery illness reveal itself. >> veterans of the gulf war have long complained after illness ranging from flu to cancer. they have dismissed the gulf war syndrome until now. >> in the e...