Desert Storm: The War Begins

An historic presentation by CNN documenting the lead up to and the beginning of the war in Iraq.

Cast

Bernard Shaw

as Self

George H. W. Bush

as Self (archive footage)

Barbara Bush

as Self (archive footage)

Dick Chaney

as Self (archive footage)

Saddam Hussein

as Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

as Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

as Self (archive footage)

Bob Dole

as Self (archive footage)

Ruhollah Khomeini

as Self (archive footage)

James Baker III

as Self (archive footage)

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