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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bush-snr-we-got-iraq-war-right.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Former US president George HW Bush has hailed the first Gulf War as a 'textbook' campaign" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-bush-snr-we-got-iraq-war-right.jpg" alt="Former US president George HW Bush has hailed the first Gulf War as a 'textbook' campaign"/></a></p>
<p>Former US president George Bush senior and members of his government have recalled the Gulf War as a time in history when the world stood united against a tyrant as well as a &#8220;textbook example&#8221; of how to go to battle.</p>
<p>Before a crowd of 3,500 people including Gulf War veterans, Mr Bush and key members of his national security team gathered at Texas A&#038;M University to discuss the 20th anniversary of the conflict which began on January 17 1991.</p>
<p>The war was prompted by Iraq&#8217;s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 under then-President Saddam Hussein.</p>
<p>Mr Bush said helping to liberate Kuwait and guiding as commander in chief of the US-led coalition troops was one of the great honours of his life.</p>
<p>&#8220;A few things I probably could have done better, but in the case of Desert Storm (the military name for the Gulf War), history will say we got this one right,&#8221; he told the audience at the event, held at A&#038;M&#8217;s basketball arena.</p>
<p>Sheikh Ahmad Humood Jaber Al-Sabah, representing Kuwait&#8217;s emir who was unable to attend, thanked the former president, his officials, the US and its military forces.</p>
<p>&#8220;Believe me, Kuwait and its people will never forget you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We carry in our hearts what you did for us each and every day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Bush was briefly joined by former vice president Dan Quayle. Later, his top advisers &#8211; then-defence secretary Dick Cheney, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell, former secretary of state James Baker and then-national security adviser Brent Scowcroft &#8211; and Mohammad Abdullah Abulhasan, Kuwait&#8217;s ambassador to the United Nations at the time, took the stage and recalled the events leading up to the conflict.</p>
<p>Their discussion detailed the efforts the US made to try to resolve the situation diplomatically and build a worldwide coalition before deciding that military action was the only solution.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a textbook example of the way to go to war. Diplomatically, politically, militarily of course and economically,&#8221; said Mr Baker, who added that Mr Bush left no stone unturned in seeking a peaceful way to resolve things.</p>
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