Grab,

Those questions were intended to be a slightly facetious introduction to the "Saddam's Life" timeline.

Point is, I suppose, that nobody could create a creep like Saddam.

As far as "buying him", I believe it is the other way around. When a Third World leader receives billions of dollars annually in oil revenue, that man has a choice: help his people and "do the right thing", or buy arms and kill people. Saddam's life shows a pre-disposition to do the latter.

Anybody who waves billions of dollars in the face of arms dealers will be able to buy anything he wants. The world just works that way.

Once he received the arms, he disd not have to use them. He did. His choice, not ours.