1.   Ground launched missiles were used to great affect by the Allies during the gulf war.

2.   The gulf war was fought with cross party agreement.

3.   American officials contend that Iraq has failed to meet all U.N. demands for lifting economic sanctions that were imposed after the gulf war.

4.   And some recent studies show that gulf war veterans have not died or been admitted to hospitals in unusual numbers.

5.   And the French learned by fighting alongside the Americans in the gulf war just how far behind the U.S. superpower they have fallen in military technology.

6.   And the overall cost of the courtroom coverage was far less than for other big news events of the recent past, like the gulf war.

7.   As he has in every self-made crisis since the end of the gulf war, he has gained prestige by suckering the U.S.

8.   As he has in every self-made crisis since the end of the gulf war, he has gained prestige by suckering the United States.

9.   As leader of the Islamic Welfare Policy, then an opposition party in Turkey, he visited the Iraqi leader during the buildup to the gulf war.

10.   As the gulf war made clear, the Saudi regime depends on American military protection against larger neighbors like Iran and Iraq.