CNN (Cable News Network) played a tremendous role in the Persian Gulf War. The Persian Gulf War began on August 2, 1990, when Iraqi forces invaded and occupied Kuwait, which Iraq long claimed. The war progressed into an armed conflict between Iraq and a coalition of 32 nations including the United States, Britain, Egypt, France, and Saudi Arabia. Iraqi president Saddam Hussein declared that the invasion was a response to overproduction of oil in Kuwait, which had cost …showed first 75 words of 1400 total…

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