It's something that he has gotten far too much mileage out of since he has since proved to be a whining leftist hack. He uses a media blurb for all of his appearances which repeats ad nauseum that the first Pres. Bush supposedly called him "an American hero" because right after Saddam invaded Kuwait in Aug. 1990 around 150 US citizens were being held hostage in Iraq. Wilson was the #2 in the US embassy there, the Charge-d'Affairs or whatever they call it, and the Ambassador was out of the country, so he was the de facto Ambassador and negotiated the release of US citizens. It's not clear to me that he did anything that wouldn't have been done by ANY US diplomat who happened to be on the scene, demanding the release of US citizens, but because of the Pres. Bush 'hero' remark he has been able to pretend now that he is a real American rather than a TRAITOR serving the interests of France, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.
ah, thanks for the explanation....