In an interview with FBI Special Agent George Piro on March 3, 2004, Saddam Hussein discussed the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Saddam said: “Iraq was asked by the Kuwaiti people to invade their country in order to remove the Kuwaiti leadership. When asked to clarify how the Kuwaiti citizens communicated their desires to the Iraqi government prior to the invasion, Hussein stated some, not all, Kuwaitis felt this way. He added, ‘We felt they were asking.’ ”
– FBI, “Interview Session 11, March 3, 2004,” Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI:, The National Security Archive, March 3, 2004