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In the decades after the war, Washington did take an increasing interest in the Gulf but mostly focused its attentions on Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Almost as an afterthought, Washington also designated Saudi Arabia as a second American proxy, despite the fact that the Kingdom then lacked the economic and political clout it has today and had virtually no military capability.

The combined 11 million barrels per day would have amounted to 20 percent of global oil consumption and given Saddam economic wealth and power greater than that of Saudi Arabia.

Saddam called in Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, and asked him to convey a message to Israel through the U.

Meanwhile, all eyes focused on a high-level meeting set for August 1 in Jeddah, Saudi Ara-bia, between Iraq and Kuwait to try to resolve the crisis.

If Saddam were allowed to retain possession of Kuwait, leaving him with roughly 9 percent of global oil production, his economic clout would rival that of Saudi Arabia, which accounted for about 11 percent of global production.

Kuwait, where it had no business being if it was only supporting an occupation of Kuwait, but where it was perfectly placed for an invasion of Saudi Arabia.

Likewise, we found Iraqi artillery pieces deployed far forward, close to the Saudi border.

During the night there had been an incursion by Iraqi tanks from western Kuwait into Saudi Arabia.

And several brigades of Republican Guard armor were reported heading south toward the Saudi border from their previous positions in southern Kuwait.

Although no one could be sure that this was the start of an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia, the NSC agreed that it could not afford to be wrong again.

At the meeting, they decided to send Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney to Saudi Arabia immediately to convince Saudi King Fahd to let the United States defend the kingdom.

Cheney, King Fahd agreed to Operation Desert Shield, bringing 250,000 American troops in to defend Saudi Arabia.

Had his invasion of Kuwait been without reprisals, he would have continued to take the Eastern part of Saudi Arabia.

Saddam did not intend to attack Saudi Arabia immediately, Washington began to see the invasion as an opportunity.