Thanks a lot!
So your position would be that they may be too evil to be truly witless. ;^)
That's a disturbing option.
Who said that the evil-doers have to be stupid? Ever hear of the "evil genius" of comic-book fame? This stereotype comes from somewhere, namely history. The evil often think of themselves as so gifted, so great, that in their arrogance they admit nothing superior to themselves. Saddam Hussein is, IMHO, one such person. He's survived and prospered (though his people didn't) in perhaps the world's toughest neighborhood, and that coming from being a nothing member of a minority group - this speaks volumes. That he screwed up monumentally in the Gulf War doesn't detract from his wiliness, it only means that he didn't understand a foreign culture, esp. the American and English parts. He is someone that we need to really watch out for (now
there's an original thought!) - if we don't, one day a couple of our cities will contribute greatly to the world's supply of radioactive slag, or else we'll have a new Black Death on our shores.
To me, Hussein is the very definition of "evil genius" in our times, and he must be eliminated ASAP.