Saddam's War of Words: Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi Invasion of KuwaitFrom a Western perspective, the Persian Gulf War of 1990 1991 largely fulfilled the first President Bush's objective: "In, out, do it, do it right, get gone. That's the message." But in the Arab world, the causes and consequences of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and his subsequent defeat by a U. S. led coalition were never so clear cut. The potent blend of Islam and Arab nationalism that Saddam forged to justify the unjustifiable his invasion of