America and Iraq in the Run Up to the First Gulf War

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says she would not have supported the war in Iraq if she had been there. She was speaking on a BBC documentary about her time as prime minister of Britain during the first Gulf War, which lasted from 1991 to 2003. The bloodbath that follows the ceasefire inside of Iraq was too much to bear for George H.W. Bush and he establishes a no fly zone over northern Iraq. It actually was a turned out to be kind of a great thing, because those American planes patrolling the sky between 1991 and 2003 gave the Kurds the space and security to establish a regional government That stands for this day.