Saddam thought he had the green light to invade Kuwait

[UltraBudgie]

Yes. Supposedly the story was that he put out feelers to the State Department, and one of his men was given the "go ahead, we don't care" by a representative at some state function, when he sidled up to him at an adjacent urinal in the restroom. I tried searching for the story, but it seems to have been effectively memory-holed.