[iconoclast]

Saddam is one of old GHWB's friends who forgot to ask for explicit permission before moving into Kuwait.

Bingo! You are apparently the only other freeper that remembers that little factoid.

Do you also remember/have any info on the story about the feather-headed ambassador to Iraq that aired at the time of Iraq War I but was fairly quickly squelched?

[Trust but Verify]

Yes, her name was April Glaspie. But according to some, she isn't 'feather-headed' at all, but doing what the President told her to do.