Our Declared Objective: to Overthrow Saddam - Henry Kissinger

We need to rebuild confidence in our purposes and capabilities in the Gulf. We must define a policy toward Iraq that relates our declared objective of overthrowing Saddam to our equally explicit commitment to the territorial integrity of the country. We must relate our policy of isolating Iran to our European allies’ reluctance to follow such a course.

Henry Kissinger, New York Post, 10/9/96