The dictator didn't use his last chance either.
Instead of ordering a withdrawal from occupied Kuwait by 12 noon New York time on February 23, 1991, Saddam Hussein continued to tact.
Even after five weeks of night air strikes on Baghdad and the Iraqi army, he apparently still believed that he could withstand the combined military power of the USA and 21 other states.
A mistake. Exactly eight hours after the ultimatum had expired, Armageddon began for Saddam's soldiers in Kuwait and along the Iraqi-Saudi-Arabian border on February 24, 1991 at 4 a.m. around 1500 tanks in motion.