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Bakr al baghdadi. their affiliation, their loyalty was to what they said "the islamic state." abu bakr al baghdadi appeared just once in public in 2014 in that mosque in mosul, and after that he was largely absent. he was not for instance like osama bin laden whose fame goes back to the 1980s when he led the so-called area knmujahideen. abu bakr al baghdadi was largely unknown in iraq itself, his native land. when he appeared in that mosque in 2014, in mosul, many people had no idea who he was. and so there's sort of a large difference here in the sense that in the western media, particularly ...

And tonight america and the world have kept their word. this is not a time of euphoria. certainly not a time to gloat, but it is a time of pride. pride in our troops, pride in the friends who stood with us in the crisis. pride in our nation. and the people whose strength and resolve made victory quick, decisive and just. >> a week later, before a joint session of congress, president bush declared victory. >> as commander in chief, i can report to you, our armed forces fought with honor and valor. and as president, i can report to the nation aggression is defeated. the war is over. >> iraqi for...

This is not a time of euphoria. certainly not a time to gloat, but it is a time of pride. pride in our troops, pride in the friends who stood with us in the crisis. pride in our nation. and the people whose strength and resolve made victory quick, decisive and just. >> a week later, before a joint session of congress, president bush declared victory. >> as commander in chief, i can report to you, our armed forces fought with honor and valor. and as president, i can report to the nation aggression is defeated. the war is over. >> iraqi forces were pushed out of kuwait, but in iraq itself, zam w...

Of kuwait. but in iraq itself, saddam hussein was still in power. and would remain so until he was toppled 12 years later by bush's son. >> i thought that saddam hussein would leave under his own power or under being knocked off by somebody else but had i not thought that, would we then have gone to try to find him, no, we wouldn't have done it. and that was not our mission. and then for those who say well, you should have gone in and killed saddam, i'm commander in chief. i want his son or daughter go into baghdad to find the most fortified brutal dictator in history. >> 1991 began with opera...

Against kuwait would not stand. and tonight, america and the world have ket their word. this is not a time of euphoria, certainly not a time to gloat. but it is a time of pride, pride in our troops, pride in the friends who stood with us in the crisis, pride in our nation, and the people whose strength and resolve made victory quick. decisive. and just. >> a week later before a joint session of congress, president bush declared victory. >> as commander in chief, i can report to you our armed forces fought with honor and valor and as president, i can report to the nation aggression is defeated....