Rhetoric of the Gulf War
Brandi Brewer
Com 239: Summer I
It was August 2,1990, in an effort to make his country whole again that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Kuwait is a small country, and within four hours he controlled not only the region, but also 24% of the world’s oil supplies. It seemed as if his next target was Saudi Arabia. This was the exigent that the United States used to get involved in the affair. Under the claim that Saudi …
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…and its Allies.
Rhetorically I found the speech to be a good example of Campbell and Jamieson’s Presidential War Rhetoric. The formula is well suited to the changing needs of modern presidents. They tell us in Deeds Done With Words that this genre will continue to exist as long as we have the constitutional provisions separating the war powers to imply a cooperative rhetorical process in which presidents request and recommend and Congress authorize.
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