[yendu bwam]

Let's review some common sense. Iraq is a house of cards. If we were to invade it would be over in about a week or two. Agreed? Now, do you think Sadaam is not aware of this or is he just so insane as to not care about his life or anything else? Remember. He is not even a believing Muslem but a socialist dictator. There is no Heaven with virgins for him. Sadaam would be dead if he were to allow his arms stockpile of chemical or germs to fall in the wrong hands or if he gave them to anti US Islamic Radicals for use here. He knows this.

Much truth here. But he is also likely to be a man hell-bent on revenge (given his profile and his culture). His attempt to assassinate Bush 41 only serves to help confirm this. His own death may not mean that much to him, compared with the possibilities for revenge (particularly since he's already an old man with a country full of lethal enemies). An truly evil man hell-bent on revenge with weapons of mass destruction is worth the the week or two you believe would be necessary to remove him.

[Burkeman1]

If he were that insane I would agree. But I don't think so. I tend to doubt the assissantion attempt against Bush. It was avenged for under Clinton and anything he did is suspect (really- any action of the Clinton administration is just not believable on even one subject.) But even if so- and Sadaam is an insane freak hell bent on revenge. I still don't fear him or his regime- it would be over in a couple of weeks. What I fear is the fallour afterwards and a prolonged never ending US presence in Iraq and the Mideast.