Top 33 Gulf War Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Gulf War Quotes from famous people such as Barbara Boxer, Bernie Sanders, Hans Blix, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Bergen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
Barbara Boxer
What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.
Bernie Sanders
The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction – biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
Hans Blix
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me – after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq – ‘You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.’ And I thought, ‘Well those poems did their job, because now they’ll think about everything a little bit differently.’
Naomi Shihab Nye
McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.
Peter Bergen
Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.
Rob Walton
In fact, my mom would have gone to the Persian Gulf War had she not been pregnant with me.
Eric Reid
I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.
Hussein of Jordan
I remember during the Gulf War, my father’s ship had just finished a deployment in in the Gulf and was on its way back when the war started in Kuwait. They turned around and went back to the Gulf.
Sean Murray
I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.
Hannah Simone
I was born in Karachi, where my father used to work in the sales department of a pharmaceutical company. The nature of his job required him to travel, so we moved to Athens, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Riyadh and then went to Manchester during the Gulf War, moving back to Lahore closer to my father’s retirement.
Fawad Khan
I’m not panicking, and I’m not scared, I’ve been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
We’ve killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war – mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
Woody Harrelson
This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I’ve met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
Henry Kissinger
We’ve made some mistakes in this country in times past – the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.
Fred Thompson
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
Kate Adie
Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.
Michael Robotham
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.
Harold Pinter
I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.
Leslie Cockburn
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
Tony Blair
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
Ralph Peters
I was a privileged observer to be there when Celine Dion opened at Caesars Palace and then the second Gulf War started. It was an odd thing to see the impact both events had on Vegas. The place was riding high after Celine, but overnight, once war was declared, it was deserted.
Robert Lepage
I was born in ’82 and there were these bizarre wars, explained through mass media in ways that made no sense. I remember watching the Gulf War through night vision. That was sold and propagated as a showbusiness moment for the news.
Oneohtrix Point Never
The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.
Tom Harkin
There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you’re going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it’s like we called Saddam’s army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
H. R. McMaster
I don’t think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.
Christopher Shays
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
Christopher Shays
I’ve been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.
Philippe Perrin
I’ve had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
Billy Bragg
I had known Colonel Charlie Flynn since he was a lieutenant 23 years earlier, and I remembered how his first child, Molly, had been born while Charlie was deployed to the first Gulf War.
Stanley A. McChrystal
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade no

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
Condoleezza Rice
The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.
Pierre Salinger