[353FMG]

All that was needed was to keep Saddam.

He knew how to govern a Muslim state and he kept the fear of Allah in the Ayatollah.

[Jim Noble]

All that was needed was to keep Saddam

Correct.

If we had nuked Tora Bora in December 2001, as we should have, we and Saddam would have been besties the very next day.