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This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it had been occupied by the Republic of Iraq in August of 1990.

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George H. W. Bush
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 30
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