Well Doug what I was driving at, and I guess I wasn't clear enough, is that I heard an intelligence specialist on the radio, who felt that it was likely that at the end of the war very valuable information from the Iraqi intelligence service would end up in U.S. hands. Stuff about all the neighbors, and who provided Iraq with military hardware, and enough damaging material on Sadaam to last for centuries.

I misremembered when I mentioned "Cheney." What the gentleman mentioned was that Donald Rumsfeld was in Iraq meeting Sadaam in December, 1983, and again on March 24, 1984, at a time when Iraq was using nerve gas against the Iranians. And also, I believe he referred to Bob Woodward's December 15, 1986 article in the Washington Post, to the effect the CIA was assisting the Iraqis in calibrating their wartime use of nerve gas.

And he observed, if Iraq falls, probably information would turn up which would either confirm or disprove these stories, and would cast light on the role Rumsfeld played as Ronald Regan's envoy in Iraq when Iraq was known to be using that nerve gas. But he doubted that such information would ever become known or available.

Those things sort of stuck in my mind, so I mentioned them.