Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan Iraqi mamaye
Kuwait a watan Agusta 1990, Bush ya sanya takunkumin tattalin arziki a kan Iraki kuma ya tara kawancen kasa da kasa da suka yi adawa da mamayewa. Gwamnatin ta ji tsoron cewa rashin amsawa ga mamayewar zai karfafa Hussein ya kai hari kan Saudiyya ko Isra'ila, kuma yana son hana sauran ƙasashe yin irin wannan zalunci. Mutane da yawa a cikin al'ummar kasa da kasa sun yarda; Margaret Thatcher ya bayyana cewa "idan Iraki ta yi nasara, babu wata karamar jiha da ke cikin aminci". Bush kuma ya so ya tabbatar da ci gaba da samun damar zuwa man fetur, kamar yadda Iraki da Kuwait suka hada da kashi 20 cikin 100 na samar da man fetur a duniya, kuma Saudi Arabia ta samar da kashi 26 cikin 100 na samar da man fetur a duniya.