“The Persian Gulf War officially ended on March 3, 1991…when Iraq formally agreed to accept all the terms laid out by the United Nations–including a pledge to dismantle and not pursue weapons of mass destruction. Kuwait had been liberated and the United Nations, the United States, and the coalition had realized all goals.” – Ricardo […]
3/3/1991
“…the ceasefire negotiated between General [Norman] Schwarzkopf, overall commander of the allied forces, and an Iraqi military team led by General Sultan Hashim, in the border town of Safwan [Iraq] on 3 March, 1991… basically allowed the unhindered retreat of elite Republican Guard forces into Iraq, with no control over their redeployment, and the unrestricted […]
3/3/1991
In Operation Desert Storm, “President George H.W. Bush, who had no intention of ‘driving on to Baghdad,’ declared a cease-fire on February 27 [1991], and the Iraqi forces signed a formal agreement for cessation of hostilities on March 3.” – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 192 […]
3/3/1991
“By March 3 [1991], the first Gulf War was over. The Iraqi army was successfully expelled from Kuwait, while Saddam Hussein remained in power in Iraq.” – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, Page 172 […]
2/28/1991
In The Iraq War Reader, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn wrote: “On the day that the allied forces ceased fire, February 28, 1991, the Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani tried to enter the State Department, intending to brief officials on the imminent uprising in northern Iraq. Thanks to the bar on contacts, no official dared speak […]
2/28/1991
“Operation Desert Storm was a military victory of historic proportions… In the span of only forty-three days [from January 17-February 28, 1991], forty-two Iraqi combat divisions were destroyed and 82,000 prisoners taken, the entire Iraqi navy was sunk, and 50 percent of Iraq’s combat aircraft were destroyed or fled to Iran to avoid destruction. …despite […]
2/28/1991
“The [first] Gulf War lasted six weeks [January 16-February 28, 1991]–a sustained aerial bombardment followed by an overwhelming application of ground force. The campaign would go down as one of the most successful military operations in American history. American casualties were low–only 148 combat deaths–and contributions from members of the broad coalition of countries that […]
2/28/1991
Operation Desert Storm, which ended on February 28, 1991, had a “low number of casualties: 148 American combat deaths and 467 wounded. Of 116,000 coalition sorties flown, they had lost 75 aircraft, none of them in air-to-air combat.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 396 […]
2/28/1991
With the approval of General Norman Schwarzkopf, “they [President George H.W. Bush and members of his Administration] decided to declare a cease-fire [in Operation Desert Storm] at midnight [at the end of February 28, 1991], Washington time, ending the ground war exactly one hundred hours after it had begun. ‘There was a general consensus that […]
2/27/1991
“By February 27, [1991] Kuwait had been liberated.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 8 […]