Not a single doubt that is exactly what happened.
Hussein had a historical record of moving assets to other areas and even to other countries to protect them from enemy action.
He was a nasty customer but he wasn't stupid.
P.S. Remember that the entire mid-east imbroglio began with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie giving Hussein the go-ahead to invade Kuwait without US interference.
How many trillions of dollars and millions of lives have been lost due to her actions?
Indirectly she is responsible for enough deaths to put her in a class with some of the big ones: Pol Pot, Joe Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and even Hitler.
“Remember that the entire mid-east imbroglio began with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie giving Hussein the go-ahead to invade Kuwait without US interference.”
I don’t recall that story.