When Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2nd, 1990, the world was shocked for seeing a relatively big country swallowing a smaller brotherly neighbor. However, many Arabs were neither surprised nor shocked due to their knowledge of the Iraqi claims of Kuwait. The Kuwaiti argument concerning causes of the Gulf War was adopted and publicized wholeheartedly by the United States and other coalition countries. At the same time, the Iraqi claims of Kuwait were ignored. This chapter attempts to bridge this gap by examining the crisis from a broader historical perspective that accounts for the Iraqi claims, as well. In particular, the relationship between Iraq and Kuwait will be investigated in order to analyze how these claims had contributed to the crisis.