The Bush Administration's Relation With Iraq Prior To Iraq's Invasion Of Kuwait: Credibility And Misperception

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tried to deal with the leader of the
largest economy of the Persian Gulf region.
The Bush Administration's relations with Iraq prior to its invasion of
Kuwait were clouded in a context of misperception by both states and further
complicated by a lack of credibility on the part of key actors of both sides as
well. This tragic sequence of events that led to the invasion of Kuwait cannot
solely be attributed to personality traits or even actions by key individuals
within the Administration. In retrospect, it is much more complex than that.
However, the actions and public and private statements on the part of key
personnel on both sides most likely contributed to the eventual invasion of
Kuwait by Iraq in 1990.
Since, a brief, yet modest account of the history of the events leading
up to the invasion and the invasion in itself along with the regional and global
actors has been offered in section A, section B will be an analysis of the role
of misperception and ...

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to their OPEC quotas, Iraq
would take upon itself effective measures to make sure they did."1 Later,
under examination by members of the Senate Committee, Glaspie further detailed
Iraq's basic conflict with Kuwait and the UAE as "...it was Kuwait and the
United Arab Emirates whom he [Saddam] accused of overproducing their OPEC quotas
which of course put prices down and he needed the prices up because he was
deeply in debt."2 That debt, of course, had been incurred by Hussein in the
drawn out conflict with Iran only years earlier.
SETTING THE AMERICAN TRAP FOR HUSSEIN

"The Americans were determined to go to war from the start," and Saddam
Hussein "walked into a trap" ...

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