George Bush actually said...

We finished the job in compliance with the United Nations resolutions, which was to set back the aggressor, get him out of Kuwait.

Exchange With Reporters at the Grand Canyon, Arizona on the Situation in Iraq

09/17/1991

More George Bush Quotes

We will not target civilian facilities.

America treats human life as our most precious value.

Saddam Hussein does not share our value in the sanctity of life.

This temporary interruption in America's economic growth does not signal a decline in the basic long-term vitality of the U.S. economy.