This conversation has gone... interesting places ... but in the interest of fact-checking, loquitur is correct about the scuds. They are a fairly significant component of the history of that conflict, and it took a lot of diplomatic footwork to keep the Israelis from retaliating on their own - which would have achieved exactly what Saddam had hoped by taking a contest over Kuwaiti national sovereignty and the rules of the world order and dragging it into a West-vs-Islam or Arab-vs-Israeli framework. The Gulf states didn't want that to happen either. This features prominently in any diplomatic history of the Gulf conflict.
Here is a link from BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/4588486.stm