Before a crowd of 3,500 people, including Gulf War veterans, Bush and key members of his national security team gathered at Texas A&M University to discuss the 20th anniversary of the conflict, which began Jan. 17, 1991. The war was prompted by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 under then-President Saddam Hussein.
Bush said helping to liberate Kuwait and guiding as commander in chief of the U.S.-led coalition troops was one of the great honors of his life.
"A few things I probably could have done better, but in the case of Desert Storm (the military name for the Gulf War), history will say we got this one right," Bush told the audience from a stage at the event, held at A&M's basketball arena.
Bush was briefly joined by former Vice President Dan Quayle.
Later, his top advisers - then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, former Secretary of State James Baker and then-National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft - took the stage.
This article appeared on page A - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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