Saddam Hussein.
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Several major US leaders met with Saddam Hussein including Donald Rumsfeld and Rachel Glaspie. However, these contacts ended in 1991 because of the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991.
THE PERSIAN GULF WAR OF 1990-1991 began after Saddam Hussein led an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
Saddam Hussein, the former President of Iraq, launched invasions and military operations against Iran in 1980, starting the Iran-Iraq War, and he invaded Kuwait in 1990, leading to the Gulf War in 1991.
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein.
February of 1991.
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Several major US leaders met with Saddam Hussein including Donald Rumsfeld and Rachel Glaspie. However, these contacts ended in 1991 because of the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991.
THE PERSIAN GULF WAR OF 1990-1991 began after Saddam Hussein led an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
He did this towards the end of January and beginning of February 1991.
Saddam Hussein, the former President of Iraq, launched invasions and military operations against Iran in 1980, starting the Iran-Iraq War, and he invaded Kuwait in 1990, leading to the Gulf War in 1991.
IRAN did not invade Kuwait, Saddam Hussein in Iraq did.
Saddam Hussein caused the first Persian Gulf War, 1990 to 1991, when he invaded Kuwait.
This answer has underlying supposition that is inaccurate, namely that the Gulf War did not begin until Operation Desert Storm took place. This is incorrect. The Gulf War of 1991 began when Saddam Hussein order the invasion of Kuwait two months earlier. Operation Desert Storm was the United Nations repellent attack against Saddam Hussein to force him back into Iraq.
He led the US entrée into the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991.