Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Soviet Union katọrọ Saddam Hussein nke 2 August 1990
Ọ kwadoro mkpebi nke United Nations na-enye ikike iji ike agha mee ihe, ma ọ bụrụ na ọ dị mkpa, iji mee ka mmachibido ngwá agha megide Iraq. Ma nkwado ndị agha Soviet Union nyere Hussein mekwara ka United States na mba ndị ọzọ dị n'Ebe Ọdịda Anyanwụ Ụwa katọọ ya nke ukwuu. Na Washington, D.C., ndị ọkachamara na-ahụ maka iwu mba ofesi nke Heritage Foundation Jay P. Kosminsky na Michael Johns dere na 30 August 1990 na, "Ka ọ na-akatọ mwakpo Iraq, Gorbachev na-aga n'ihu na-enyere Saddam aka na agha. Site na nkwenye nke Moscow n'onwe ya, na mkparịta ụka mgbasa ozi gọọmentị nke August 22 na Red Army Colonel Valentin Ogurtsov, ndị ndụmọdụ ndị agha Soviet 193 ka na-azụ ma na-enyere ndị agha Iraq aka otu nde mmadụ. N'onwe ha, isi mmalite Pentagon na-ekwu na ndị ndụmọdụ ndị agha Soviet dị n'agbata 3,000 na 4,000 pụrụ ịnọ n'Iraq".