Not really speculation -- these are fact based:
- The Sauds were and have been sponsoring Wahabbi extremism around the world since the oil shock of Carter's time. This has radicalised the Mohammaden world. The Izlamik state, Talibs, BokoHaram etc. are all Wahabbis taught by the SAuds
- Saddy hated the jihadis and they hated him as a secular madman. He would have sucked them in and kill'd em
- he was waiting to attack Iran again
- It is on paper that many Mohammadens were enraged by infidel soldiers on the "holy soil" of Saudia which led to 9/11
firebrand - I mean fought FOR the saudsi - the USA was suckered into that war. There was no need to help the Wahabbi sponsoring Kuwaitis or Saudis. The amount of $$ spent, American lives lost and US focus lost (instead the USA could have concentrated on the home front and on containing China and on helping Russia instead of bousting up Yeltsin
The Gulf War One was a mistake that caused a lot of deaths.