No doubt the Saudis were scared S-less of Saddam. He threatened their dreams of establishing a Wahhabist Islamic Caliphate.
If Obama said this afternoon that Keystone is being fast tracked, this would all be over in a month.
That could be. I haven’t observed that goal of the Syrian leadership. You could very well be right.
There was an interesting dynamic going on though. Iran was supplying Hezbollah with weapons for Southern Lebanon. Iran would truck those through Iraq into Syria, and then into Southern Lebanon.
There had to be some kind of an agreement between powers to do that. Hussein being a devout enemy of Syria (if that were true), would mean that he would probably be reluctant to see weapons transferred (apparently) to it by Iran.