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I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News. -- Leslie Cockburn
The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism. -- Pierre Salinger
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
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
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
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
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
I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. -- Christopher Shays
I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. -- Christopher Shays
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. -- Ralph Peters
The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon. -- Tom Harkin
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone -- Philippe Perrin
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone. -- Philippe Perrin
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. -- Chris Shays
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. -- Chris Shays
Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. -- Rob Walton
Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. -- Rob Walton
I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War. -- King Hussein
I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War. -- Martin Sheen
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. -- George H. W. Bush
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
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
I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War. -- John Kasich
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
Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War. -- Michael Robotham
We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do. -- Fred Thompson
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth. -- Boake Carter
The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive. -- Richard Engel
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
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
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.' -- Naomi Shihab Nye
The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression. -- Dan Quayle
The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991. -- Paul Virilio
Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world." -- Rob Walton
During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. -- Tariq Ali
The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon. -- Paul Virilio
When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War. -- Lily King
The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets. -- Judith Butler
The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians. -- Edward Said
For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense it was a local war. But it was one that made use of all the power normally reserved for global war. -- Paul Virilio
I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control. -- George Meyer
I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world. -- Bucky Pope
We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam's ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader. -- John Kasich
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. -- Dick Cheney
Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor. -- Saddam Hussein
We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. -- Woody Harrelson
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
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
This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. -- Billy Bragg
Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army. -- Ted Cruz
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
There is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies. -- Bob Graham
Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. -- Tom Brokaw
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war. -- William Bennett
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. -- George McGovern
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic. -- Nick Clooney
The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait... -- George H. W. Bush
Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization. -- George J. Mitchell
Most people forget that even in Iraq, by the time the air and no-fly zone was established, the air defence system had been removed through the first Gulf war. All of them had been neutralised. -- Kofi Annan

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