Interesting question. I think this is what going after Iraq is all about. The US believes that Saddam will attack Israel sooner or later with his WMDs. Israel would retaliate with deadly force. Other Arab countries would join in the fracas and the whole thing would turn into a bloody, regional war in a place from which the world gets a great deal of its oil from. This of course will have far reaching effects in terms of world economic stability, much worse than WTC. Say what you want about blood for oil, but people will suffer without the oil. This is exactly what the militant muslims would like to see happen and this is what Bush is trying to prevent. The stonewalling by the UN,Germany, France has been a big side show and has distracted from and obscured the real purpose of getting rid of Saddam. Why they are stonewalling is kind of mystery to me. All I can figure is that they are guilty of complicity with Saddam or this is part of some big international face-saving ruse they are putting up.