[dirtboy]

Saddam Hussein has never been a threat to the security of the United States.

So Saddam Hussein being in a position to control the oil output of Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia is not a threat to our security? I agree that liberating Kuwait was a fig leaf for the underlying oil issues - but those issues were vital to the economic and security interests of this country - with control over that much oil output, Hussien would be in a position to be the key player in setting oil prices, which would have had devastating effects on the global economy.

[Ada Coddington]

So Saddam Hussein being in a position to control the oil output of Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia is not a threat to our security?

Correct. The stuff is useless to him unless he can sell it. And, like the other oil producing states, he would want to be able to sell it to us.

[Ada Coddington]

So Saddam Hussein being in a position to control the oil output of Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia is not a threat to our security?

Correct. The stuff is useless to him unless he can sell it. And, like the other oil producing states, he would want to be able to sell it to us.