Blackmail Quote by Saddam Hussein

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

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

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

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

— Les Aspin

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

— April Glaspie

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the…

— Jesse Jackson

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 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

Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and…

— Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

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 Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a…

— Ahmed Chalabi

The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence…

— Anonymous