"This is a government that had to rescue its country after the dreadful events of the genocide," he told The Sunday Telegraph in a recent interview.
Most of Kuwait's 800,000 citizens remain grateful for United States protection following the Persian Gulf war in 1991, in which American troops rescued their country from an Iraqi invasion.
And then she pleaded, "Will you suffer female influence so far to operate upon you as to step forth and lend your aid to rescue your country and your friend."
Some were honest men, appalled by the list of dead and wounded in the newspapers each day, who were desperately trying to rescue their country from a seeming holocaust.
President Reagan rescued our country from a long period of malaise, lack of spirit and collective depression, a period in which America drifted listlessly and without an anchor.
But there is a great deal the letter writer can do to rescue our country from the right-wing cabal that threatens it.
But by siding with Iraq, the King has jeopardized the long-term Gulf Arab and Western financial support he needs to rescue his country from a deep economic crisis.
America rescued my country twice in the last century - something we will never forget.
But he is prepared to go much further, in the effort to rescue his country from immobilism, than we suspected at first.
She had to rescue her country, the United States; above all she had to direct the president (at the time L. B. Johnson) onto the correct path.