Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pana August 1, 1990, Iraq yeBa'athist, inotungamirirwa naSaddam Hussein, yakapinda
Kuwait. Purezidhendi Bush akaumba mubatanidzwa wenyika dzakawanda uye akawana mvumo yeUN yokudzinga Iraq. Musi waJanuary 12, 1991, Congress yakavhotera kubvumidzwa kwechiuto chokurwisa, Operation Desert Storm, nomusiyano muduku, namaRepublican achitsigira uye maDemocrat achishora. Kuvhota muImba kwaiva 250<unk>183, uye muSeneti 52<unk>47. MuSeneti maRepublican makumi mana nemaviri nemaDemocrat gumi vakavhotera hondo, nepo maDemocrat makumi mana nemashanu nemaRepublican maviri vakavhotera kwete. MuImba 164 maRepublican nemaDemocrat makumi masere nematanhatu vakavhotera hongu, uye maDemocrat zana nemakumi manomwe nenomwe, maRepublican matatu nemumwe akazvimiririra vakavhota kwete. Hondo yacho yaive pfupi uye yakabudirira, asi Hussein akabvumidzwa kuramba ari musimba. Nyika dzechiArab dzakabhadhara mari dzose dzehondo dzeAmerica.