1991 Gulf War Looms Large Over Bush's Mideast Legacy

On the outskirts of Kuwait City, the love Kuwaitis have for former U.S. President George H.W. Bush could be seen in 2016 on a billboard one Bedouin family put up to announce their son's wedding. That son being Bush al-Widhan, born in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War that saw U.S.-led forces expel the occupying Iraqi troops of dictator Saddam Hussein. "He was a real man, a lion,'' said Mubarak al-Widhan, the father of the Kuwaiti Bush, of the American president....

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