...call for the Iraqi people to rise up against Saddam: There's another way for the bloodshed to stop. That is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people...force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside, and to comply with the UN, and then rejoin the family of peace-loving nations.19 This message was broadcast...

...to denounce the Iraqi statement as a "cruel hoax." He went on to call upon the "Iraqi military and Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands,...force Saddam Hussein the dictator to step aside." Bush coupled the call for Saddam Hussein's overthrow with a promise to end his brutal aggression. Meeting...

...1991[T]here's another way for the bloodshed to stop. and that is for the lraqi military and the lraqi people to take matters into their own hands — to...force Saddam Hussein. the dictator. to step aside. and to comply with the United Nations resolutions and then rejoin the family of peace-loving nations....

...were Bush's remarks of 15 February 1991, quoted in the International Herald Tribune on 16 February: "There's another way for the bloodshed to stop, and...to force Saddam Hussein the dictator to step aside and to comply with the United Nations resolutions and then the family of peace-loving nations." See...

...P7 category for long-stayers. Because they responded to a call from the elder president Bush urging "the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters...force Saddam Hussein the dictator to step aside," the US government bears a particular responsibility on this group's behalf. While living conditions...

...in Baghdad" reflecting the Iraqi people's desire to see the war end. Then he moved on to appeal to "the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters...to force Saddam Hussein the dictator to step aside . . . and rejoin the family of nations." Just to make sure the message got across, Bush repeated it,...

...expense. Not surprisingly, these demands were dismissed as a "cruel hoax" by George Bush, who called upon "the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters...hands, to force Saddam Hussein the dictator to step aside."28 Iraq responded by renewing its threat of employing chemical weapons. "If the high-altitude...

..."There's another way for the bloodshed to stop, and that is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi penple to take matters into their own hands, to force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside." —President George H W. Bush, February 15,1991 "What has befallen us of defeat, shame, and humiliation,...

...mid-February 1991, during the war's air campaign, President George Bush declared "the Iraqi people should take matters into their own hands to force Saddam Hussein the dictator to step aside."16 When the ground war ended two weeks later, with Saddam's troops in retreat and hundreds of...

...those objectives were attained. At the start of the Gulf conflict, US President Bush had called upon the Iraqi people 'to take matters into their own hands to force Saddam Hussein to step aside'. When the war ended at the beginning of March 1991 - with an Allied ceasefire that left...