Aggression Quote by George H. W. Bush

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

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

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

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

When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the…

— Howard Fineman

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

For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is…

— Sandy Berger

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he…

— Condoleezza Rice

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we…

— George H. W. Bush

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

— Naomi Klein

The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared…

— Jim Gerlach

Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab…

— Mark Steyn