U.S. President George Bush began and ended his state of the union address in January, 1991 with references to "the new world order." On September 11, 1990 he did the same thing in another speech giving the reasons he sent American troops to Saudi Arabia against Iraq. In that speech he said: "Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective, - a new world order - can emerge.... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders."