Saddam is reputed to have two divisions on the Syrian border and has been pressuring the Syrians to let him cross Syrian territory to reach Israel.
A recent defector said that he has two nuclear devices and is working on a third. The problem is a reliable delivery system. Scuds probably wouldn't cut it.
Our government definitely made a mistake when we helped him build his army during the Iran-Iraq war. We made the monster and now we are responsible for controling it.
What I have never understood is Bushs' refusal to go on to Bagdad and take him out once and for all when we had the chance. Of course it would have played hell with the balance of power in the Middle East but would it have been any worse than the situation there now?
As was pointed out on another thread, alliances are not made for moral or humanitarian reasons but for reasons of economic and national interest.It is truly said that politics makes strange bedfellows.

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