Remembering Desert Storm

‘Band of Brothers’ Mark Gulf War Anniversary -- New York Times

COLLEGE STATION, Tex. — The first President Bush, now 86, walked unsteadily to his seat on the stage. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who was Mr. Bush’s defense secretary, spoke as a mechanical device pumped his failing heart. The others were grayer, balder or bearers of the scars of fresher wars.

For what could well be the last time, the major American decision-makers in the 1991 invasion that drove Saddam Hussein’s forces out of Kuwait gathered here on Thursday night, celebrating the 20th anniversary of what they quietly consider the “good” Iraq war — as opposed to the one that the second President Bush ordered in 2003.

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More News On Remembering Desert Storm

20 years after Gulf War, architects talk of lessons -- USA Today
Former President George H.W. Bush Marks 20th Anniversary of Desert Storm With National Security Team -- ABC News
Bush, ex-officials gather for Gulf War anniversary -- Miami Herald/AP
Bush, ex-officials mark Gulf War anniversary -- AP
Elder Bush brings team together 20 years after Gulf War -- CNN
Today's Desert Storm reunion a curtain call on history -- Houston Chronicle
Gulf war, 20 years on: memories of Desert Storm -- The Guardian
Wiltshire Major General remembers start of the Gulf War -- BBC
The Gulf War in retrospect -- Tom Mahnken, Shadow Government
20 years after Desert Storm began, former President George H.W. Bush says he has no regrets -- Michael Graczyk, L.A. Times
Operation Desert Storm -- Global Security
Persian Gulf War -- History.com
The gulf gap -- L.A. Times editorial
Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part II of II -- Geoffrey Wawro, Huffington Post
Gulf War -- Wikipedia