...Kuwait. At any rate, Saddam's proposal was dismissed as a "cruel hoax" by President Bush, who called upon the "Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters...hands, to force Saddam Hussein the dictator to step aside."20 Bush's explicit invitation to the Iraqi people to pursue the "Ceausescu option" did not go...

...Hussein as its war aim, there is ample evidence that this was highly desired; President Bush called upon the Iraqi people to "take matters into their own hands,...force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside," and even remarked that the American people did not want to "let Saddam get away."39 With nearly all...

...down the revolts against Saddam's regime. PART TWO AFTERMATHS OF THE GULF WAR THREE SADDAM SURVIVES "There's another way for the bloodshed to stop, and...force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside." —President George HW Bush, February 15, 1991 "What has befallen us of defeat, shame, and humiliation,...

...Comfort On February 15, 1991, as the war in Iraq raged, President Bush called on the people of Iraq to 'take matters into their own hands — to force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside . . . '.2 The Voice of Free Iraq, a clandestine radio station sponsored by the Central Intelligence...