Kuwait
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Sep 11, 2026
John PodhoretzHOST
The initial thought was, well, obviously, this is just part and parcel of the general, uh, conflict in the Middle East that stems from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and was just yet another iteration of that.
John PodhoretzHOST
And we were basically told by the attackers on 9/11, by Al-Qaeda, by Osama bin Laden, that this was not really the case, that Osama bin Laden believed that the United States had become the weak horse, and that, uh, it was time to strike while the iron was hot, that, uh, the United States had gravely offended the Muslim world by serving, um, 10 years earlier as the effective, uh, external defender of the holy sites of Islam, uh, against the Shiite Saddam Hussein in his efforts, uh, against Kuwait, and then his kind of rhetorical war against Saudi Arabia.
John PodhoretzHOST
And that what we had here was not, oh, if we just solve the Palestinian problem, all of this tension between America and the West and the Middle East would go away.
John PodhoretzHOST
It was w- there is a battle between civilizations.
Peter BergenGUEST
...
Peter BergenGUEST
in 100 hours, you know, the United States and its allies expelled Saddam from-- Hussein's forces from Kuwait.
Peter BergenGUEST
Uh, that was done with a lot of allies, it was done with limited goals, and it worked.
Peter BergenGUEST
And so as I say in the book, you know, George W. Bush never asked his war cabinet, "Is invading Iraq a good idea?" And I mean [chuckles] and if that debate had happened, you know, it was-- The people in his war cabinet knew it was kind of a fait accompli and they, they, you know, they just sort of went along with it and it's-
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Peter BergenGUEST
I mean, I, Andrew, I totally agree.
Peter BergenGUEST
I mean, I, I, I grew up in the UK.
Peter BergenGUEST
I'm an American citizen, so [chuckles] I've seen-- I moved here, you know, a long time ago when I finished university and, you know, I've seen, you know, we, this, I mentioned that hyperpower in the, uh- ... a kind of idea in the book because we, you know, we overthrew Saddam in, you know, in the 19-- uh, we, you know, turf Saddam out of Kuwait very quickly, 100 Hour War in 1991.
Andrew NeilHOST
No, I remember.
Mark CancianGUEST
They've become much more aggressive in the last couple of weeks.
Mark CancianGUEST
Uh, they're attacking US, uh, forces in Jordan and also Kuwait and Bahrain.
Mark CancianGUEST
Uh, they're attacking ships in the, um, Persian Gulf and in the Straits.
Mark CancianGUEST
Uh, and then they're attacking US forces and, and launching missiles against, uh, uh, naval forces, ships in the, uh, Arabian Sea.
Kate TurkingtonGUEST
Iraq
Gareth CliffHOST
... that was Kuwait.
Kate TurkingtonGUEST
Iraq.
Gareth CliffHOST
Well, look, I mean, so, you know-
Kate TurkingtonGUEST
Never stops.
Kate TurkingtonGUEST
Never stops
Gareth CliffHOST
... you could argue, you could argue that, that Saddam started that whole thing by invading Kuwait, which he shouldn't have done, but-
Kate TurkingtonGUEST
I suppose so.
Laurel RappHOST
So Jason, how did this plot come to be, and could or should the US administration under George W. Bush have known there was this extremist violence fomenting which could lead to such an act of terrorism?
Jason BurkeGUEST
The plot started to become a substantial project in about '99, 2000, when Osama Bin Laden was offered a kind of proposed project involving hijack planes on a vast scale by a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani militant called Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who wasn't part of Al-Qaeda, but kinda came with this idea that he wanted kind of resources for.
Jason BurkeGUEST
And Bin Laden took it and adapted it to something that he thought would be much more likely to succeed.
Jason BurkeGUEST
And over the next two years, 18 months, the personnel for the attack were picked as recruits taken from training camps in Afghanistan that Al-Qaeda were running, and then they were got into the US by a variety of means, and finally were able to go ahead with the attack with, as we know, very kind of low technology, but just exploiting the vulnerabilities of American airport security and other deficiencies in the counterterrorist setup at the time.
Lewis Scooter LibbyGUEST
It was a generational challenge.
Lewis Scooter LibbyGUEST
It would be fought, not like the war in Kuwait in 1990, but it would be fought in the shadows as well as militarily with intelligence, et cetera.
Lewis Scooter LibbyGUEST
And when he finished, the NBC crew applauded him.
Lewis Scooter LibbyGUEST
And I asked the host of the show, how often does that happen? And the host said, it's never happened before.
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Lewis Scooter LibbyGUEST
lack of cohesion and self-doubt and anger within the Muslim world.
Lewis Scooter LibbyGUEST
And when you look at it, you wonder, why is this part of the world with all these resources, why does it lag in so many different ways from the rest of civilization? So I recall people saying, Why is Saudi Arabia spreading hatred about us after we just saved them in 1991 from Saddam's...
Lewis Scooter LibbyGUEST
A large part of that war was to prevent Saddam not only gobbling up Kuwait, but then coming down and taking the Saudi oil fields.
Lewis Scooter LibbyGUEST
So why should Saudi be against us? So we did defend them.
Truman VailHOST
That's infrastructure being built to operate outside the dollar, which is exactly what you'd do if you were preparing to let your own currency appreciate.
Truman VailHOST
And there's still guidance circulating that the opportunity to participate in the pre-revaluation phase is rapidly diminishing, with the claim that Iraqi authorities may follow a path similar to post-war Kuwait, where official estimates for currency exchange windows were rapidly condensed from 90 days down to about 43 to 47 days.
Truman VailHOST
That's a warning to currency holders to maintain operational readiness.
Truman VailHOST
Make sure your currency is accessible, your documentation is in order, and you know which banks in your area are planning to participate.
Truman VailHOST
If the window genuinely compresses the way Kuwait's did, there won't be time to scramble.
Truman VailHOST
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Truman VailHOST
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Dick CheneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Dick CheneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq.
Dick CheneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Once you got to Iraq and took it over and took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world.
Dick CheneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And if you take down the central government in Iraq, you can easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off part of it.
Thom HartmannHOST
One of the things Bush said to me, Herskowitz says, is, quote, one of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander in chief.
Thom HartmannHOST
My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait, and he wasted it.
Thom HartmannHOST
If I have a chance to invade Iraq, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it.
Thom HartmannHOST
I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed, and I'm going to have a successful presidency, end of quote.
James Noel-BeswickHOST
Then the bit that matters for shipping, what we're going to speak about freight later.
James Noel-BeswickHOST
The Iranian Armed Forces, again, the Navy, has told tanker crews at Kuwait and Bahrain ports, hosting Americans to evacuate their vessels.
James Noel-BeswickHOST
And Tehran says it will announce a new exclusion zone outside of Meuse in the coming days, where it intends to stop ships transiting through or without Iranian permission.
James Noel-BeswickHOST
So the danger zone is widening from Iranian waters to the Gulf of Amman and the Arabian Sea.
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