Our treaty with Kuwait was responsible for their not having a military to block the Iraqi invasion. H.W. Bush didn’t negotiate that treaty, Reagan did. The treaty stipulated that if military defense of Kuwait was needed, we would provide that. The idea had been that fewer big armies would somehow make the middle east more stable.
You’re not very clear on this concept of diplomacy, are you?
There should never have been any “second war” and that falls squarely on H.W. Bush.
His kids have both been even worse militarily.
In an effort to prop up the value of the dollar, Richard Nixon negotiated a deal with Saudi Arabia that in exchange for arms and protection they would denominate all future oil sales in U.S. dollars
We were primarily defending Saudi Arabia, Kuwait being a client state of Saudi Arabia and it was Nixon that made the "deal" not Reagan.
I remember the US asking Kuwait for permission to base equipment on Kuwait soil and Kuwait denying the request. That forced us to bring in huge barges to base the equipment on. So I was pissed when we came to their rescue. But it was Kuwait we were rescuing is was the House of Saud which was Sadams' next target.
I believe the Kuwaiti military senior chiefs were on the beach at a plush French resort when Iraq invaded. They were smart enough to hire an expensive US PR firm to have a Kuwaiti expat testify about the Iraqi troops turning off the ventilators for premature babies at the hospital in Kuwait City - turned out to be a total lie to stir up support for a US led invasion. Just yesterday, Trump told of being visited by the major Kuwaiti fund manager after the 1991 war; he had disdain for the US and stated that the fund wouldn’t invest a dime here. I could give a damn about Kuwait.