Also, remember that Saddam, like Bin Laden, like Noriega, like Pinochet, like the Shah of Iran, like many other dictators...was once a friend and partner of the USA, financed and armed by the USA to kill "enemies of the USA". In his case, Iranians. It was the USA and other western powers which supplied Saddam with WMD's to kill Iranians (and Kurds). The USA funds and assists dictators wherever it needs them. When they are no longer needed, then they are transformed by the magic of propaganda into "the next Hitler", the next "greatest threat to world peace". And then they are expendable.

Saddam was just the latest thug to fall into that very nasty little trap. There was nothing he could do to stop it once Bush had decided he wanted a war. Saddam could have turned over every weapon in that country, right down to the machine guns, and the USA and Britain would still have gone in and taken the place over...for the oil.

Now they are seeking reasons to eventually attack Iran. Amazing, considering that Iraq and Afghanistan already appear to be more than they can actually handle, given the numbers of troops available on the ground.

"Oh well, we'll just bomb them out with B-52's then..." Uh-huh. You can kill 1,000 of them at the cost of one American or less and win a military victory...but then how do you secure the peace? How do you provide security and stability in the aftermath of the destruction your WMS's have wrought. Answer: You don't. They will fight you as the Vietnamese did, for generations if they must, because it is not your country, it's theirs, and you can't kill all of them.