Iraqi invasion of Kuwait event
also: Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, invade Kuwait, Iraq entered Kuwait, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, attack on Kuwait, Desert Storm
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Saddam Husseinperson · 10Kuwaitcountry · 5Irancountry · 4Iraqcountry · 3George H.W. Bushperson · 3Operation Gladiooperation · 3Italycountry · 2U.S. State Departmentorganization · 2United Statescountry · 2NATOorganization · 2CIAintelligence service · 2U.S. Congressorganization · 1SAVAKintelligence service · 1Andreotti disclosure 2 Aug 1990event · 1Norman Schwarzkopf Sr.person · 1Kamal Adhamperson · 1Iran-Iraq Warevent · 1April Glaspieperson · 1Gulf War 1991event · 1Bill Clintonperson · 1Francesco Cossigaperson · 1Ross Perotperson · 1
Claims (4)
Saddam Hussein carried_out_attack
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait guest_asserted
“It was my first overseas assignment that dates like frozen in my head. And I was like, what the hell? It also, by the way, is the exact same day that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, which was arranged the week before when NATO realized that …”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 4:19
April Glaspie ordered_assassination_of
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait host_asserted
“and pumping it as if it was Kuwaiti oil. And it had been a long standing feud between the two. And so he told Saddam Hussein, if he went into Kuwait to basically take back their oil, that the U.S. wouldn't have a problem with that. And then…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 1:41:35
William Barr covered_up
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait host_asserted
“who obviously is not part of the Bush thing right now. But that was all an orchestrated because I mean, as far as Bush being literally the CIA, because he's the president, this was all orchestrated. Well, you know, that's what you just desc…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 1:16:17
CIA covered_up
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait host_asserted
“who obviously is not part of the Bush thing right now. But that was all an orchestrated because I mean, as far as Bush being literally the CIA, because he's the president, this was all orchestrated. Well, you know, that's what you just desc…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 1:16:17
Mentions (13)
▶ 18:34
is the one that came to the United States after Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait later on and goes, oh my God, look what he did and set him up and lied about the whole baby and incubator thing. They basically took Saddam Hussein out to the cle…
▶ 40:13
The media immediately went to all of the other heads of state within the European theater and said, hey, do we have one of these? And of course, they all go, no, no, no, we don't know anything about that. But it just so happens that was the…
▶ 1:04:05
International airports were so militarized. What the heck is going on? That was the exact same day that Saddam Hussein had been given State Department authority to invade Kuwait. And do you know what the convenient thing that all of the NAT…
▶ 4:19
It was my first overseas assignment that dates like frozen in my head. And I was like, what the hell? It also, by the way, is the exact same day that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, which was arranged the week before when NATO realized that …
▶ 4:49
because it was the U.S. ambassador that told Saddam Hussein if he decided to invade Kuwait, they wouldn't do anything. So, again, having done all of this research and lived so much of this personally and been in places where this has happen…
▶ 27:02
So we create wars to divert attention from here to over here. You know, almost like the Iraq war, when Operation Gladio was getting exposed, the CIA tells Saddam Hussein, as well as the State Department, that they're fine to invade the same…
▶ 1:40:38
We instigated it or something, basically. Well, we authorized Iraq's invasion of Kuwait because, obviously, you probably haven't been here the whole time we've been doing this, years now. But the invasion happened on the 2nd of August of 19…
▶ 1:41:35
and pumping it as if it was Kuwaiti oil. And it had been a long standing feud between the two. And so he told Saddam Hussein, if he went into Kuwait to basically take back their oil, that the U.S. wouldn't have a problem with that. And then…
▶ 1:13:22
At one point in time, we had Iraq, you know, Iraq and Iran fired shots and everything like that. Bush allowed Saddam Hussein, who he had a lot of business contacts with over the years, and his business partners did as well, allowed him to k…
▶ 1:14:49
Our Norman Schwarzkopf of Desert Storm's dad was the creator. That's why Norman Schwarzkopf, when he talks about growing up and spending time in Iran, his dad was over there creating their national police, which were butchers. And so all of…
▶ 1:15:17
What happened in the lead up to that, the week prior to it, about five days before that, the U.N. or the U.S. ambassador liaison to Iraq tells Saddam Hussein, we understand that you're right. Kuwait has been horizontally drilling into Iraqi…
▶ 1:15:47
Get your oil fields back. So whatever you feel necessary to do, you just go ahead and do that. Know that you have our backing. So Saddam Hussein, within the next week, launches the attack on Kuwait and the Kuwaitis working with Bush are the…
▶ 1:16:48
George H.W. Bush, during the election, went from having an approval rating of 89% all the way down to 37% in just 14 months. Now, he got just wiped out by Clinton and Perot in 1992. But he went from being a very popular president when the f…