Gulf War Quotes

• It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Country, War, Iraq

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• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement

  Barbara Boxer

  War, Commitment, Wmd

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• The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

  Pierre Salinger

  War, Islamic, Terrorism

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• 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), my sympathy was limited.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Kuwait, Devastation

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• It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Important, Alliances

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• But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

  Chris Shays

  War, Causes, Illness

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• But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

  Kate Adie

  War, Iraq, Soldier

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• What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Believe, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Years, Hussein

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• The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

  Hans Blix

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

  Dick Cheney

  Mother, Retreat, Force

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• I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  War, Asia, Scared

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

  S. Robson Walton

  War, Nwo, Numbers

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• I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

  Chris Shays

  War, Thinking, Causes

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• I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone

  Philippe Perrin

  War, Pilots, Involved

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  It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Inspiring, Courage, Veterans Day

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.13, Bantam

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• I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Believe, Wmds In Iraq

  Senate debate on using military force against Iraq, October 9, 2002.

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• Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Press Statement, Chicago, www.pbs.org. November 10, 1999.

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• Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  Ralph Peters

  War, Marine, Tanks

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• We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

  Woody Harrelson

  Block, War, Humanitarian

  "I'm an American tired of American lies" by Woody Harrelson, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2002.

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• I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Kids, Shots

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• In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

  Tony Blair

  War, Wmd, Iraq

  Tony Blair's Speech opening the Commons debate on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.

  Hannah Simone

  Country, War, Moving

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 22, 2012.

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