Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Kutarisana nezvikwereti zvakakura nemitengo yepasi yemafuta mumashure mehondo yeIran-Iraq, mutungamiri weIraq Saddam Hussein akafunga kukunda nyika yeKuwait, nyika diki, yakapfuma mafuta iri pamuganhu wekumaodzanyemba weIraq. Pashure pokunge Iraq yapinda
Kuwait muna August 1990, Bush akaisa zvirango zvoupfumi paIraq ndokuunganidza mubatanidzwa wenyika dzakawanda wakanga uchipesana nokupinda kwacho. Hurumende yaityira kuti kukundikana kupindura kupindirwa kwaizokurudzira Hussein kurwisa Saudi Arabia kana Israeri, uye vaida kuodza mwoyo dzimwe nyika kubva pakurwisa kwakafanana. Bush aidawo kuva nechokwadi chokuramba achiwana mafuta, sezvo Iraq neKuwait pamwe chete dzaigovera 20 muzana yekugadzirwa kwemafuta munyika yose, uye Saudi Arabia yakabudisa zvimwe 26 muzana zvokugoverwa kwemafuta munyika yose.