Iraq manages to break up the coalition during the first gulf war.

Well, I've been reading up some on the first gulf war, and discovered that Iraq had attempted to get most of the middle east nations fighting with the US to leave the alliance. He attempted this by launching some missiles to Israel to provoke them into war so it would appear that they were all fighting on the same side. This would have forced all Arab nations to back out of the alliance. It is also vital to note that the missiles had no real payload and did minimal damage and no deaths. The US managed to convince isreal to stay out of the war and since the missiles did little damage Isreal does.

Ok, so my POD Saddam loads those missiles with actual chemicals and launches them at isreal. This kills alot of people. Isreal is enraged at this act and does in fact join the war. However all islamic nations in the alliance leave cause they do not want to be seen as allies of isreal. This also forces saudi to kick the US out of their nation.

So that leaves the USA, United Kingdom, and Isreal in the war with no nations allowing them to launch a attack from. How does the US deal with the sudden loss of allies and its position to launch its invasion from?
 
Assuming a ground assault was still on the table at that point we would've had to launch a heavy heavy air campaign on the Kuwaiti coast and try to storm ashore. But since all of Saddam's guns were pointing that way it would've been dangerous as all hell.
 
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