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Saddam cannot win a war with the US, if the US has the will to win. However, if he attacks first and achieves military control over much of the middle east, he can reach a position of strength to negotiate from and may not only maintain his power but extend it.

ROTFLMAO!!

Attacks first? Whom? How? and most impotantly why? Saddam has been playing the victim game since Desert Storm. If he attacks anyone he loses the only safeguard he has left, being the victim. Use WMD? What do you think Israel is going to respond with if WMD is used on them. This whole column is ludicrous.

Well, the same might have been said of Hitler's early days. Germany's economy was in utter destruction, its regions were politically separate, the military was weak, and they were still reviled by the world for WWI. Without firing a shot, he got Germany to reunite, repatriated "German" lands from most of her neighbors, took over quite a bit of land... gaining a very strong position from which he "reach[ed] a position of strength to negotiate from and... not only maintain[ed] his power but extend[ed] it."

We need to be careful out there, while we do what is necessary. Personally, I pray that Iran's younger and highly pro-Western (and near-majority) populations exert more and more influence over the elderly and radically anti-Western imams(?) who are in power. Having them as an ally rather than as an enemy would make things SO much better for us.

What do you think Israel is going to respond with if WMD is used on them.

Do you think Israel would begin a systematic vaporization of Iraq only to invite her own destruction by Iraqi WMD scuds, or sue for peace and try to arrange some type of peace treaty like she did with Egypt? After all, we are talking about Israel's existence here. They couldn't stop every inbound scud in 1991, and they won't be able to stop them this time either. Makes for truly interesting thought, hey?

I believe Baghdad has become the worse investment in real estate today, but the present Iraqi regime will remain in power to fulfill Jeremiah's prophecy that has yet to complete- that an Iraqi ruler will rule over Israel.