george h w bush was president when the gulf war with iraq started.
george h w bush was president when the gulf war with iraq started.
who was president when the gulf war with iraq started?
george h w bush
following iraq's defeat in the gulf war, the united nations security council introduced resolution 661, which imposed sanctions against iraq. at the beginning, most american observers believed the sanctions would lead to saddam's downfall. u.s. president george h. w. bush said, "economic sanctions in this instance if fully enforced can be very, very effective, [...] there are some indications that that he's [saddam] already beginning to feel the pinch and nobody can stand up forever to total economic deprivation." in theory (and practice), iraq was very vulnerable to sanctions during this time. thirty percent of its gnp before the gulf war was used to import food, and 95 percent of iraq's export earnings came from oil; oil production was 40 percent of gnp. the country was also reliant on foreign trade (35–50 percent of gnp for exported and imported goods). iraq was also an easy country to blockade economically; its oil exports could be blockaded by closing its pipelines (which ran through turkey, jordan and syria). while sanctions were successful from an economic point of view, politically they failed; saddam would rule iraq until 2003.
ba'athist iraq
durgaa is an indian hindi film directed by shibu mitra, released on 12 july, 1985. the film stars hema malini in the title role. this action-crime genre film revolves around durgaa, a soft-spoken girl who is exploited by various men in her life. at first, durgaa falls in love with a young man (raj babbar) and even marries him. but she realises after marriage that her husband had married her only as an excuse to sleep with her. durgaa sees her husband romancing and sleeping with other girls. her husband tries to get durgaa into trouble by hatching a plan to get her name tagged as a prostitute. she is then accused of murdering an innocent girl but seeks the help of a senior good looking man (pran) to bear her court expenses so that she can fight the injustice against her. she is introduced to mohan babu (rajesh khanna), who has the reputation of winning every case he handles and so is hired as the advocate representing durgaa. but durgaa is not aware of the motive of the old man in helping her. the rest of the story is why mohan was hired as the advocate by that old man, what the motive of the old man helping durgaa was, will durgaa ever forgive her husband, who murdered the girl etc. in the end durgaa takes revenge on the devils in her life. rajesh khanna plays the savior of durgaa in the last 50 minutes of the film, playing the advocate representing durgaa in court, and marries durgaa in the end. the music is by sonik omi.
durgaa