Not completely sure what he was plying here, but he should have immediately vaporized Riyadh and Mecca.
He was and probably still is a fool who believed that Islam isn’t significantly different than Christianity. It was a common belief among the neocons that he surrounded himself with. They imagined that they could reinvent the culture of the Middle East by killing a few dictators and implementing democracy. Natan Sharansky’s book full of democracy worship was a big influence on him.