On August 15, 1990, days after Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, President [H.W.] Bush declared: “Our jobs, our way of life, our own freedom, and the freedom of friendly countries around the world would all suffer if control of the world’s great oil reserves fell into the hands of that one man, Saddam Hussein.” – “Remarks to […]
8/15/1990
“Back in August 1990, the Iraqi leader had sent armed forces into the neighboring country of Kuwait. This was a small country that had become very wealthy because of it’s huge reserves of petroleum (oil). Saddam’s troops quickly occupied Kuwait, and it became a province (territory) of Iraq.” [The 15th of the month for date […]
8/15/1990
“…in August 1990 [Saddam’s son-in-law, General Hussein] Kamel had ordered a crash program to make a nuclear weapon, using fissionable material from research reactor fuel that was under IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] safeguards. That program had failed.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page […]
8/15/1990
“On August 15 [1990], President Bush declared, ‘Our jobs, our way of life, our own freedom and the freedom of friendly countries around the world would all suffer if control of the world’s great oil reserves fell into the hands of Saddam Hussein.’ To this, Secretary [of State James] Baker added, ‘The economic lifeline of […]
8/15/1990
Former Iraqi general Georges Sada wrote: “I learned from a close family member of a high-ranking Iraqi official that Saddam made arrangements in August 1990 to acquire nuclear weapons directly from a group of nuclear scientists in China. After the invasion of Kuwait [on August 2, 1990], Saddam realized that scrutiny of his weapons programs […]
8/15/1990
“When Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, bin Laden offered the Saudi government his thousands of mujahedin fighters. Rather than accept his offer, Saudi Arabia instead allowed U.S. soldiers on its soil to serve as its defenders. This decision infuriated him, and he began to criticize the Saudi regime openly. …Bin Laden had […]
8/8/1990
In a speech on Aug. 8, 1990, President George H.W. Bush said: “The mission of our troops is wholly defensive … [It] is not the mission, to drive the Iraqis out of Kuwait.” – Eds. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, The Iraq War Reader, Page 74 […]
8/8/1990
After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, “On August 8, 1990, President George H.W. Bush ordered American troops to the region, ostensibly to prevent an invasion of Saudi Arabia. Operation Desert Shield was now under way. Eventually, that movement resulted in the buildup of approximately 500,000 U.S. forces over the next five months.” – Ricardo S. Sanchez […]
8/7/1990
“Opposition to the long-time presence of Americans on the Arabian peninsula intensified dramatically after August 7, 1990, the day that the first U.S. troops were dispatched to Saudi Arabia as part of Operation Desert Shield. The dying edict of the Prophet Muhammad had been ‘Let there be no two religions in Arabia’; now ‘infidels’ of […]
8/7/1990
“On August 7, 1990, the United States began sending the most sophisticated and powerful fighting machine in the history of the world into the ancient desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia. …Tens of thousands of American soldiers–blacks, Asians, Christians, Jews, even women–made their way into a tribal, male-dominated Arab culture that had never seen anything of […]