"Then they should have been watching Saddam, and preparing."
Wow, you're just the man of a thousand ready answers aren;t you.
Didn't matter, the invassion of Kuwait was complete surprise.
All indications had been that he was going to pummel either his own northern Kurds, or Iran again.
"Or had him rubbed him out."
That had been tried without success.
Saddam became more paranoid and had people murdered in his own country on the slightest suspicion, and you think Saudi Arabia could have had him killed?
lol...you kept telling me to try again. And actually, my answers have all been the same.