Damage Quote by Les Aspin

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

— April Glaspie

The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait),…

— Margaret Thatcher

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

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

— Colin Powell

I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us…

— George H. W. Bush

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.

— Mike Pence

No matter how tough Iraq became, removing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do for the sake of peace and for the 25…

— George W. Bush

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

— Colin Powell

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

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly…

— Hans Blix

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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