Why is Saddam so weighty anyway? What important role does he play in the eyes of Bush and Blair? There are dictators in the world who are far worse than Saddam. Is it the oil or is it because they feel guilty for first backing him during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) and then suddenly they realize he used weapons he bought from US and Britain on Kuwait?
North Korea, terror groups all over Asia, militants inside the US pose a far larger threat to the stability of the world than a megalomaniac in Iraq who thinks he