Little celebration is planned in Baghdad for the anniversary of the start of the Persian Gulf war.
Baghdad will come to a standstill on Tuesday. Iraqis will observe a moment of silence at 8 a.m. as everyone goes to work. That's the exact moment that the first bombs were dropped. View Results President Saddam Hussein appears to have survived three U.S. administrations since the Gulf War, and he will commemorate the anniversary of the Gulf War with a televised speech to the nation tomorrow. Iraq still officially says it won the war, because it stood virtually alone against the world's most powerful armies.