The Fog of War

I returned to Notre Dame’s campus on January 13, 1991 for the second semester of freshman year. On Thursday of that week, “Operation Desert Storm” officially began. The U.S. started an intensive bombing campaign after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, supposedly because Kuwait over-produced oil. Iraq was deeply in debt and wanted Kuwait’s oil. The US feared that the move into Kuwait and a further move into Saudi Arabia would give Iraq control of 40% of the world’s oil.