Adversaries Quote by George H. W. Bush

The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name…

— George H. W. Bush

...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

“The deal, together with other initiatives to extend its military influence in the region, would culminate in the US using the kingdom as a…

— Andrew Feinstein

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

“Saudi Arabia, we should remember (as we turn to Indonesia and southern Thailand), in addition to flooding postrevolutionary Egypt with cash and hijacking the…

— John R. Bradley

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

Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as…

— Jimmy Carter

“The objection to the American empire is not that it is an empire per se, but that, arguably unlike that which was ruled by…

— John R. Bradley

It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990,…

— Margaret Thatcher

The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world…

— George W. Bush

Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in…

— William J. Clinton

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