On September 27th, 1990, Jabir al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the emir of Kuwait who was deposed by Saddam Hussein's invasion, spoke before the UN General Assembly in NY.  His emotional speech was meant to encourage the world's nations to join the coalition to reverse Iraq's invasion.  Here are some quotes from his speech:

[...] The crisis of Kuwait is a manifold tragedy, whose dire consequences affect not only Kuwaitis but other peoples as well. In fact, it has jeopardized stability in the world, especially in the Gulf region.

How was the invasion of Kuwait a tragedy for anyone other than the Kuwaitis?

[...] For we have never seen in contemporary post World War Two history a country that overran a sovereign independent state, a member of the United Nations, and then sought not only to annex it by brutal force but also to erase its name and entire entity from the world political map and wipe out the parameters of its national identity as defined by its institutions and its political, economic and social structures. All of this, Mr. President, has taken place as we approach the end of the twentieth century!

An ironic statement, given Dar al-Islam's ceaseless attempts to obliterate the nation of Israel from the face of the earth by brutal force.  They erase its name and entire entity by referring to Israel as "the Zionist entitiy", and by destroying the archaelogical evidence at the Temple Mount.  Their maps of Muslim "Palestine" do not include even the slightest fragment of a remaining Jewish Israel.  They attempt to wipe out Israel's national identity by insisting on the "right of return" of legions of Arab Muslims who have no ties to the land.  All of this in the twenty-first century, Mr. President!

[...] The aggression by the Iraqi regime [one Muslim nation] against the State of Kuwait [another Muslim nation] which resulted in occupation and the Iraqi vicious attempts to annex Kuwait in flagrant violation of all charters, norms of conduct and treaties....

One day, the kufirs may not be so quick to step in and resolve intra-Islamic warfare at great cost, in money and in lives, to themselves.

[...] This Iraqi regime has invented false pretexts and untenable claims against my peaceful and peace-loving country.

We'll come back to "invented false pretexts" shortly.

[...] Iraq was bent on sweeping through the entire territory of Kuwait, violating its sovereignty and violating the sanctity of Kuwaiti citizens' lives and property. As a consequence, rape, destruction, terror and torture are now the rule of the day in the once peaceful and tranquil land of Kuwait. Hundreds of thousands of Kuwaiti citizens along with nationals of various other countries who were our guests have been made homeless and many of them have had their life saving robbed. Hundreds have lost their lives. Others have been held hostage. Indeed, at this very moment, an intense campaign of terror, torture and humiliation continues unabated in that dear land. We receive daily reports of massacres and continuing systematic armed looting and destruction of state assets and individual property.

How is Kuwait different from all the other nations suffering the "rape, destruction, terror, and torture" that is justified by Islamic texts, such as in Sudan, Israel, Thailand, Russia, and many, many, others?

Two years have now elapsed since I made an initiative from this rostrum calling for the cancellation of foreign debts under the burden of which numerous countries suffer enormously. In point of fact, these countries have fallen victim to a host of factors that not only thwarted any prospect for their economic prosperity but also generated mounting pressure on them. Though some measure of progress has indeed been made in this area, the magnitude and scope of the problem continue to pose a grave threat to the lives of millions of human beings, a threat that in all likelihood may undermine world peace and stability. The long standing academic argument that economic stability and political stability are closely interlinked is perhaps as valid and timely now as it has ever been. Along these lines, it would be advisable for us all to review the conclusions of the United Nations-sponsored Conference on the Problems of the Least Developed Countries, held in Paris earlier this month, in order to appreciate better the weight of the problem and the urgency it has assumed with a view to making tangible headway towards an effective remedy in the interest of all mankind. In this spirit, Kuwait, for its part, has decided, in line with our previous proposal regarding this issue, to write off all interests on its loans. In addition, Kuwait will consider with the poorest nations arrangements regarding the principal of its loans with a view to easing the burden of their debts.

This paragraph, putatively showing how concerned the Kuwaitis are with the poor of the world, is actually a reference to one of Saddam's main motivations for invading Kuwait:  the $65 billion debt that Iraq owed to Kuwait after the Iran-Iraq War.  After refusing to forgive the debt for years, now that Saddam has invaded and deposed him, he's willing to forgive the debt to get his old job back.  Quite the humanitarian.

The devastating consequences of the aggression against Kuwait and its civilian population with its repercussions on the stability and security of the entire Gulf region, together with its ripple effects on world stability, as we have clearly seen, have been far-reaching indeed. They have already had adverse effects on long-standing crucial issues we had always hoped the world community would eventually resolve satisfactorily. I have in mind the problem of the Palestinian people and the tragedy of the occupation of the Southern part of our sister state, Lebanon.

Yes, the "Palestinians" were so close to peacefully compromising with Israel, until Saddam's invasion of Kuwait destroyed those chances.  Riiiight.  Nice try at trying to somehow involve the Jews in this purely intra-Islamic war. 

Together, we will join hands in concert and harmony to secure our development and progress. This will be a fulfillment of God's promise as rendered in the following verse:
"O ye who believe, If you will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you, And plant your feet firmly."
(Surah 47, Mohammad, Verse 7.) And whose word can be truer than Allah's?
Thank you and may Allah, our Lord, bring you all peace and grace.

Who can doubt that George Bush Sr., and the Coalition, and the UN, "aid[ed] the cause of Allah" by protecting one group of Sunni Muslims from another group of Sunni Muslims?  By bringing stability and prosperity back to the region, it allowed the Saudis and Kuwaitis and Emirates to focus on the important work of funding anti-kufir jihad.

But back to "invented false pretexts".  In the leadup to Gulf War I, we were fed a stream of falsehoods to rally the people to the cause of war.  There was the case of "Nurse Nayirah", who tearfully testified about how the Iraqis had entered an intensive care nursery in Kuwait and killed babies by removing them from incubators.  Except that she wasn't a nurse, she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador; and except that she wasn't in Kuwait during the invasion, and couldn't have seen anything.  Her lachrymose performance was orchestrated by the public relations firm of Hill and Knowlton, who were on the payroll of "Citizens for a Free Kuwait."

The "invented false pretexts" continued in Gulf War II, with the fictional stories of Jumana Hanna, buried mobile WMD labs, Niger yellowcake documents, Saddam's personal connections with Al Qaeda, and Saddam's human shredding machine.  And now here we are, $3 trillion (in direct and indirect costs) and 4174 lives later.

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Sept 25: Assassination of Aqila al-Hashimi in Iraq
Sept 24: Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi
Sept 23: Gulf Air Flight 771
Sept 22: Iran-Iraq War
Sept 21: Algerian Guelb El-Kabir massacre