[Edmund Burke]

Why wouldn't Saddam's smartest move be to seize the Saudi oilfields? Couldn't he do this with a large enough force? U.S. airpower could slow him down, but probably not stop him.

[SodiumWarthog]

Seizing the the oil fields gains him nothing. What loyal units he does have to execute such a manuver will be lost (chewed up by air-power and cut off). If they succeed, they can set them afire but the damage would be repaired in short order. Besides doing so will make him look like the aggressor.

NaW.
(And he doesn't want to look like a bad-guy, does he?...)

[Dog]

He could do it ....but your forgeting we have forces in Afghanistan...that we could counter this move with.

Saddam wants to be the victim in this fight...he won't launch first....

[Brusensky]

Saddam and his armies will try to inflict as much damage as possible, taking into consideration what would be the most painful for the US/Western interests in the area. This, by all means, includes, but not limited to, the Kuwaiti and Saudi oilfields. Saddam will not spare his armies. It as almost definite his family and himself will be on the way to be saved by Shia Ayatolla to the East. Just one last comment on Bob Novak: he is a PIG.