2/15/1991

Speaking at the Raytheon Corporation plant in Andover, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1991, President George H.W. Bush said, regarding the situation in Iraq: ” ‘There’s another way for the bloodshed to stop, and this is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside.’ ”

 – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 39