During the Reagen/Bush administrations they were one of our buddies - UP TO AND AFTER THE TIME THEY GASSED THE KURDS.
Actually, we ended military aid.
Saddam, perhaps inspired by Bush's invasion of Panama, decided to go into Kuwait (for reasons no less flimsy than Bush's). As I recall, that's when the hostilities commenced. But they didn't "attack" us.
BS. We did not occupy all of Panama. WE overthroew a dictator whose forces were kidnapping and terrorizing Americans. We otherow a dictator who ran a drug network.
Iraq invaded a foreign country to annex it.