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As much as anybody involved in the operation. first hand personal experience on what we were asking people to do. >> reporter: a cnn crew covering the last minute diplomacy in baghdad witnessed what happened next. >> the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. we're seeing bright flashes going off all over the sky. >> reporter: in washington, it was the evening of january 16, 1991. the president went on national television to announce the beginning of operation desert storm. >> some may ask why act now? why not wait? the answer is clear. the world could wait no longer. >> reporter: after fiv...

Time for them to use force. to change borders. which is why he was so tough on saddam hussein which is the reason that the coalition was simply designed to liberate kuwait. it wasn't designed to overthrow saddam hussein. sure, if saddam hussein had been overthrown by the generals george bush would have been happy. but the coalition was to show the world you don't invade your neighbors. it was a way of laying a marker down for a new system of international relations following the cold war. only somebody with a world war i i experience, only someone who remembered roosevelt, who actually still b...

Cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind. >> reporter: president bush promoted eastern europe's peaceful emergence from communism, the breakup of the soviet union, and the end of u.s./soviet proxy wars in nicaragua and el salvador. >> some felt we were so infatuated with the change in eastern europe we were in the process of neglecting this hemisphere. that's not the case. >> reporter: president bush used u.s. military power to remove a drug dealing strong man, noriega, who was turning panama into a narcostate and the biggest u.s. military operation since the vietnam war, presiden...

The book and he was serious in the defense of his father. he told numerous stories about what he wanted people to remember. of course, a part of that was defending his father and his position to go after the iraqi forces in kuwait, but to stop short of getting saddam hussein. he talked about the fact that he was not trying to finish the job his father had started and rather his father gave him a blessing in a conversation they had over the phone about the difficult choice of going to war. they talked about as well the fact that there was a lot of pain in their family. those personal stories ar...

>> we wanted to get the iraqi army out of kuwait, to restore the government of kuwait and to get our troops home. >> we all felt that going to baghdad would have been a violation sort of of the agreements we had made. >> reporter: less than two months after the war started president bush declared victory. >> now we can see a new world coming in to view. a world in which there's a real prospect of a new world order. >> if you design a president to deal with that kind of a situation, a military crisis, massive use of military force, global operation, you'd be hard put to find anybody any better ...