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Wrong. he comes to power in the beginning of 1989. ronald reagan had gotten mikel gorbachev to sign a nuclear arms treaty, interrange missiles, had done things to begin to end the cold war. the berlin wall was still up. eastern europe was locked in the soviet orbit, and it fell to george bush to coax goto bring to completion. saddam hussein invades kuwait. george bush knew what this meant in the first test of the cold war world, a un member has been invaded and the george bush goes saying i know...

Treating have been milking their country for years. lets bring in the cnn global affairs vice president, scholar at the woodrow wilson national center here in washington. this is a major development right now. but give us first of all some historic perspective aaron, you studied the middle east for a long time, worked in the state department for years on the middle east. how big of a deal is this? >> its huge. ive watched the saudis for four years and both with respect to what mahammad is doin...

I cant -- this is president bush speaking -- i cant be off in a corner falling on my ideological sword. at that point as well as you know, you write about in "41," its october, and what -- june 27th, 1990, is when the no new taxes pledge was broken and the statement was released. august 2nd, 1990, saddam invades kuwait. the budget negotiations roll in to columbus day. the last thing george herbert walker bush is going to do is put the trips in the field at risk with a government shutdown, a poss...

But in real time, we have the documents, we know he did it. george herbert walker bush struck that deal at andrews air force base in 1990 and knew it would probably cost him the election. >> it wasnt a maybe this will be bad, maybe this will be rough. this was, im doing this because its right, its going to break the base, i may pay with -- the job may cost me. and then that got sort of lost because of what happened on the 2nd of august, 1990, saddam invades kuwait and then -- the narrative shift...

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>> oliver: in the wake of the vietnam war everything changed. >> never before in the history of war reporting has a group of correspondents constant distortions and lies in reporting the car. >> the days of total access and free movements of journalists were gone. 1983, granada, journalists were bar frd the island until three days. panama, strict control by the military led to coverage some say it was an illusion of a bloodless battlefield. >> 1990, iraq invades kuwait. >> none of it appears -- ...

And an exile becomes an influential figure in the baath party. when the party recaptures power in 1968, saddam hussein becomes the vice president. in the 1970s, saddam hussein remains vice president, but hes the real power behind the government. when president ahmad hasan backer steps down in 1979, saddam hussein replaces him, and deals ruthlessly with his rivals. in the 1980s, saddam hussein orders an air attack against iran, and that began eight years of war against the islamic republic. on se...