e allies bombed the retreating Iraqis for forty hours.The Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz flew to New York to work out a cease fire, and accepted the U.N. resolutions including having to surrender its claims to Kuwait. On January 17th hours before the cease fire US air force bombers dropped 5,000 pound bombes on a command bunker outside of Baghdad in an attempt to kill Sadam Hussein.The war was financed by counties that could not send troops to fight. More than fifty three billion dollars were pledged and received for the war effort. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were some of the largest donors to the war effort and Switzerland also contributed to the allies.Loses from the war consisted of 148 Americans with 24 percent of them killed by friendly fire and land mines that were not marked after the cease fire agreement. The Iraqi army lost 4,000 tanks, 7 helicopters and 240 airplanes....
