Not to mention the 150 billion dollars on aid and weapons. ... It also made oil prices in the U.S. skyrocket as Iraqi soldiers set fire to most of Kuwait's oil wells being that Kuwait was one of the world's biggest suppliers of oil. ...
This essay will focus on such effects including the Cold War, the increasing use of weapons of mass destruction, the role of women, the population explosion. ... As a result of this war, both superpowers now had nuclear weapons. ... The oil spill in the North has killed the majority of the marine life living in that area and the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl caused radiation to spread around the area. ...
The air force's main weapons consist of a series of different types of aircraft. ... Some the targets that were attacked includes "railroad facilities, bridges, factories, and oil refineries and killed tens of thousands of civilians in firebombings of such cities as Dresden, Hamburg, and Tokyo" (Britannica 2). ...
Hugo Chavez's friendship with (and discounted oil sales to) Fidel Castro, his criticism of the U.S. war on terrorism, his cordial relations with the mid-east OPEC partners, his apparent sympathy for Colombia's FARC guerrillas, and his denial of Venezuelan airspace for U.S. drug war missions have all been sore points with the Bush administration. ...
