George Bush actually said...

Our Forces are in the Gulf region in the exercise of our inherent right of individual and collective self-defense against Iraq's aggression.

Letter to Congressional Leaders on the Deployment of Additional United States Armed Forces to the Persian Gulf

11/15/1990

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We are going to create more jobs through free and fair trade, not by listening to the waffle iron of Clinton and Gore.

I wholeheartedly support the very important purpose of this legislation.

These will be interpreted in a way that does not restrict my authority to supervise the executive branch.

I believe that's what the Federal Government should do.