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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: FaultLine who started this subject8/29/2002 10:06:09 PM
From: SirRealist  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Something I stumbled across: is this the significance of the date?

>>On September 11, 1990, Bush also told a joint session of Congress that "following negotiations and promises by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein not to use force, a powerful army invaded its trusting and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. Within three days, 120,000 troops with 850 tanks had poured into Kuwait and moved south to threaten Saudi Arabia. It was then I decided to act to check that aggression." <<
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