Chemical weapons Quote by Colin Powell

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

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he…

— Anonymous

This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after…

— George H. W. Bush

The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August…

— Michael Klare

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

— April Glaspie

Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.

— Charles B. Rangel

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before…

— Jim Gerlach

Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until…

— Saddam Hussein

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

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

— Charles Evers

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

— Les Aspin