I'm not sure I follow your points about Hitler's roads and vegetarianism, BB. LOL! Look, man, I never think of anyone as all-bad, Hitler included. Bush included. You and me included. I know that people are a mixture of good and bad tendencies, and the same goes for a country or a given administration.

I cannot fault Saddam for rebuilding his military after the Gulf War. Anyone else in his position would have tried to do the same. His country was being bombed off and on ever since the Gulf War, and was not even allowed to use 2/3 of its own air space...which was given over instead to enemy aircraft which were bombing him whenever they wanted to! What would you do if someone did that to the USA for ten years? Would you NOT attempt to fight back? Would you NOT attempt to restore your military to full strength?

Iraq had every right to defend its own land, reclaim its airspace, and rebuild its own military. It did not have the right to invade someone else's land.

Anyway, it's nice to have you to play political ping-pong with, BB. Keeps me out of mischief, eh? ;-)

Your serve...