July 25, 1990 Hussein met with the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie. He told her of his plans to invade Kuwait. She admitted in open testimony to Congress that she gave him the green light. She said to him,”Your dispute with Kuwait is an inter-Arab matter of no concern to the U.S.A.” Ambassadors don't do things on their own. They are official voices of the countries they represent.

Eight days later, on August 2, he proceeded to invade Kuwait. Under the George H. W. Bush Administration, America reacted by invading Iraq in a war of aggression called “Desert Storm” or “Gulf War 1”. It was a minor war, compared to the protracted conflict known as “Operation Iraqi Freedom” or “Gulf War 2”. It began on January 17, 1991 and ended two months later. We had during that time officially killed 50,000 Iraqi civilians.