Bush's Speech on the Iraq War

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"This study will provide a critique of President George Bush's January 16, 1991, televised address to the people of the United States announcing the commencement of the war against Iraq.


The speech was given after five months of sanctions against Iraq after that country invaded Kuwait due to what Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein saw as Kuwait's intransigence in talks over a long-lasting border dispute. Bush in his speech tries to give the impression that his attitude toward Iraq and Hussein had been clear and steady, but in fact U.S. policy toward that nation and its leader had been confused and confusing, and analysts such as Woodward argue that that confusion helped Hussein come to the conclusion to invade Kuwait in the first place. As Woodward writes, "U.S. policy toward Iraq was muddled. Bush..."

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