George Bush

About the Author: George Bush was elected president of the United States in 1988. He served as vice president under President Ronald Reagan between 1980 and 1988.The following viewpoint is taken from a speech delivered by President Bush to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention on January 28, 1991.

The clergyman Richard Cecil once said, "There are two classes of the wise; the men who serve God because they have found Him, and the men who seek Him because they have not found Him yet." Abroad, as in America, our task is to serve and seek wisely through the policies we pursue.

Nowhere is this more true than in the Persian Gulf where, despite protestations of Saddam Hussein, it is not Iraq against the United States, it's the regime of Saddam Hussein against the rest of the world. Saddam...