> Kuwaitis and the Saudis would not help it get out of. There is long distance between 'would not help' and 'drop all your debt claims against me'. Nobody had

> Kuwaitis and the Saudis would not help it get out of. There is long distance between 'would not help' and 'drop all your debt claims against me'. Nobody had forced Saddam to invade Iran. He took the risk and took the debt knowingly. He then turned around and and claimed 'I did all of this for you, so I don't have to pay anything back'. The Americans did help to build the Saudis, but the Saudis would almost certainly have succeeded without the Americans as well. Saudi Arabia was never a America child.