America Quote by Caspar Weinberger

The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security…

— Richard N. Haass

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse…

— George H. W. Bush

If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but…

— Brent Scowcroft

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

— Tom Harkin

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

— Dan Quayle

It was not the United States who invaded Kuwait; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that went to war with Iran;…

— Colin Powell

The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war…

— Judith Butler

Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait .

— April Glaspie

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did…

— Walter Russell Mead

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

— Henry Kissinger

The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us……

— Saddam Hussein

...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage…

— Michael Klare