THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992
PRESIDENT GEORGE HW BUSH
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send troops into Afghanistan.
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launched Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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sent an invasion force to Egypt.
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ordered airstrikes in Libya.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the early 1970s, Saddam Hussein ordered the creation of a clandestine nuclear weapons program. Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs were assisted by a wide variety of firms and governments in the 1970s and 1980s.
Detailed explanation-2: -The primary rationalization for the Iraq War was articulated by a joint resolution of the United States Congress known as the Iraq Resolution. The US claimed the intent was to “disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people".
Detailed explanation-3: -Shortly after the fighting between Iraq and Coalition Forces in the Gulf War came to a cease-fire in February 1991, reports circulated that Saddam Hussein was using chemical agents against Kurds and Shiite Muslims, near UN troops.