“I’ll never understand why Saddam invaded Kuwait. We had (I think...) a legit national security interest in pushing him back.”
He invaded because our ambassador April Glaspie told him it was not our problem.
“We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.”
April Glaspie
Kuwait was drinking Saddam's milkshake.
I forgot about that....
That’s preposterous - and costly