COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Former President George H.W. Bush and top officials from his administration on Thursday remembered the Persian Gulf War as a time in history when the world stood united against a tyrant as well as a “textbook example” of how to go to battle.
Before a crowd of 3,500 people, including Gulf War veterans, Bush and key members of his national security team gathered at Texas A&M University to discuss the 20th anniversary of the conflict, which began Jan. 17, 1991. The war was prompted by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 under then-President Saddam Hussein.
Bush said helping to liberate Kuwait and guiding as commander in chief the U.S.-led coalition troops was one of the great honors of his life.
“A few things I probably could have done better, but in the case of Desert Storm, history will say we got this one right,” Bush told the audience from a stage at the event, held at A&M’s basketball arena.
Sheikh Ahmad Humood Jaber Al-Sabah, representing Kuwait’s emir, who was unable to attend, thanked the former president, his officials, the U.S. and its military forces.
The Associated Press
