Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Thatcher akanga ari muU.S. parwendo rwehurumende apo mutungamiri weIraq Saddam Hussein
yakapinda muKuwait muna August 1990. Mukati mokukurukurirana kwake naPurezidhendi George H. W. Bush, uyo akatsiva Reagan muna 1989, akakurudzira kupindira, ndokuisa dzvinyiriro pana Bush kuti aendese mauto kuMiddle East kuti adzinge Hondo yeIraq muKuwait. Bush akanga achitya pamusoro pechirongwa chacho, achikurudzira Thatcher kutaura kwaari mukati mekurukurirano yorunhare kuti: "Ino yakanga isiri nguva yokuva asina kusimba!" Hurumende yaThatcher yakapa masimba ehondo kumubatanidzwa wenyika dzakawanda mukuvaka Hondo yeGulf, asi iye akange arega basa panguva iyo kurwa kwakatanga musi wa17 Ndira 1991. Iye akaombera ruoko kukunda kwokubatanidza pamadziro, achinyevera kuti "kukunda kworugare kuchatora nguva refu kupfuura hondo dzehondo". Zvakaziviswa muna 2017 kuti Thatcher akanga ataura kutyisidzira Saddam nezvombo zvemakemikari mushure mekupinda muKuwait.