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phone to brent scowcroft, my boss. he said the president s helicoptering back from camp david. i can t meet him. you have to brief him on the situation. there s probably going to be a lot of press there. i got to go. the president lands and i m out there with my piece of paper. and he took the paper, goes over to the microphone and that s when he just said this will not stand. this not stand, this aggression against kuwait. i ve got to go. i have to go to work. it was an unusual sound from him. he was firm because he really meant it. bush had a moral code. i think he got it from his prep school, he got it from his mother. and saddam hussein didn t do the honorable thing. he invaded another country. from the day the invasion took place, secretary baker led the effort to build a global coalition. they had two expeditions overseas in which they were going around from capital to capital looking for support. the united nations security council has authorized the use of force again
doesn t want war. if you had been in the room with saddam hussein and interviewed him for an hour and 15 minutes and spent another hour and a half with him after the interview, i think you would have reached the same conclusion. no question saddam hussein was a stone cold killer. this is the opening of the post cold war era of history. if aggression was allowed to stand, nobody thought it would end there. president bush came of age throughout all those decades in which there were world wars, in which there was the west against the soviets. he d been cia director, he s been ambassador, right? everything. so he really understood the world. and understood the stakes. but for whatever reason when iraq invaded kuwait, saddam hussein honestly thought nobody would care and he almost got away with it. the first saturday of the crisis, i get a call on the
prison, it becomes a global moment that signifies one of the earliest indications that the 1990s is going to be a very different sort of decade. i greet you all. in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom for all. he becomes a moral beacon around the world because of the way he handled himself. so you had this world, this moment in the early 90s when the peacemakers were in charge. the stars aligned. there has been a dangerous late-breaking development in the persian gulf. u.s. intelligence sources confirm that within the past few hours, more than 100,000 iraqi troops have massed along that country s border with kuwait. saddam hussein sends a substantial fleet of tanks and other mechanized forces to the kuwaiti border. it s shocking in washington and other than western capitals. saddam had a million-man army
the headlines at 6:00. more than a million troops are tonight facing each other in the saudi desert preparing for war. saddam hussein warned the united states today that american troops would, quote, swim in their own blood if they go to war with iraq. saddam hussein started this cruel war against kuwait. tonight, the battle has been joined. about 50 minutes ago, american aircraft suddenly descended on iraq and occupied kuwait. the war in the persian gulf has begun. secretary weinberger, you were credited with the military buildup which has come to a lot of criticism. we have to go to baghdad, secretary. something is happening outside. the skies over baghdad have been