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The telephone call from Margaret Thatcher to George H. W. Bush on the afternoon of the Kuwait invasion which, in John Kiriakou's account of that day inside the CIA, was what finally decided the president to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
Now is not the time to go wobbly is the line John Kiriakou identifies as the hinge of 2 August 1990.
Having briefed George H. W. Bush in the Oval Office that morning, Kiriakou’s reading of the president was that he “genuinely didn’t know what to do” about the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.[1]
Later in the afternoon Bush took a telephone call from the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. What she said — “George, now is not the time to go wobbly” — was immediately leaked and has since become famous. In Kiriakou’s account it was that, rather than anything briefed to him in the Oval Office, which made Bush finally decide to oust Iraqi troops from Kuwait.[1]
The decision that followed shaped the rest of Kiriakou’s early career: the war to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, the choice to leave him in power afterwards rather than destabilise the region, and the long Iraq account Kiriakou worked as Saddam’s classified biographer.[2]
↑John Kiriakou's Dead Drop, 2025-10-27 · Transcript
↑John Kiriakou's Dead Drop, 2025-11-24 · Transcript
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
