Middle East Mrs. A. Sisk

Embassies – Living and working house/office for foreign diplomats. Ambassador

Other Recent Attacks on Ambassadors at Embassies – Attacks on Turkey and Afghanistan Embassies 2012 – Attacks on Yemen and Tunisia Embassies Sept 11, 2012 – Egypt and Libya Libya (Benghazi) – 4 US personnel killed Hillary Clinton was Sec of State Caught a lot of backlash about security of Embassy afterwards You’ll hear about this during her run for President

Iranian Hostage Crisis – 1979 After the Iranian Revolution Shah Pahlavi ran out of country / exiled / harbored in U.S. Ayatollah takes power – Iran becomes Islamic State… not friendly to U.S. Iranian citizens jumped the walls of the U.S. Embassy. Took 52 American hostages from the Embassy Held them for 444 days President Jimmy Carter tried to get them released Slap in the face… Hostages were released day of Reagan’s inauguration

The Persian Gulf War 1991 T HE U.S NATIONS V S. I RAQ

Kuwait is OIL Rich - no income tax - free education - free health care etc…

Saddam Hussein vs. George H. W. Bush

Iraq targeted / bombed Israel Kuwait Flag Saudi Flag Celebrate Victory!

Aug 1990 – Feb 1991 – Gulf War I would guess if we had gone in there, we would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home. And the final point that I think needs to be made is this question of casualties. I don't think you could have done all of that without significant additional U.S. casualties, and while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the (1991) conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war. And the question in my mind is, how many additional American casualties is Saddam (Hussein) worth? And the answer is, not that damned many. So, I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the President made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq. [118] [118] — Dick Cheney, US Defense Secretary

O BJECTIVE A CCOMPLISHED I RAQ DOESN ’ T CONQUER K UWAIT

Iraq War 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom

Why attack Iraq? United Nations sanction Iraq – No weapons of mass destruction WMD Saddam Hussein Killed many of his own people Thought to be working to get nuclear weapons U.S. Intelligence said Saddam had WMDs secretly U.S. and Britain (a couple others) decided to take down Saddam Controversial

March 2003 – Dec 2003 December 2003 Saddam Hussein found 3 Years later after a trial The people of Iraq Find him guilty and hang him

Categorization Israel / Iraq / Iran Jewish State

Categorization Israel / Iraq / Iran Saddam Hussein

Categorization Israel / Iraq / Iran Ayatollah returns 1979

Categorization Israel / Iraq / Iran West Bank

Categorization Israel / Iraq / Iran U.S. Embassy attacked 1979

Categorization Israel / Iraq / Iran Zionism

Categorization Israel / Iraq / Iran Invasion of Kuwait

Categorization Israel / Iraq / Iran Shah Pahlavi flees

Categorization Israel / Iraq / Iran Weapons of Mass Destruction WMDs