That's a pretty stupid comment, considering that Saddam steam rolled Kuwait and then Saudi Arabia would be next. Saddam's dictatorship was secular Baathist by the way. But that has nothing to do with it.
Actually, Saddam was next on the menu - he won previous wars with Iran with US help, but he wasn’t going to get that after Kuwait - his military was in shambles with a lot of it smoldering along the Highway of Death into Baghdad - they lasted about ten days against the US and wouldn’t have survived much longer the next time Iran invaded - within a few years Iraq would have become a part of Iran, along with its chemical weapons dumps and yellowcake.....