And if he followed Burkeman's scenario and had control of the Saudi Penninsula and 25 to 30 million barrels of oil? Virtually 80 % of Opec? You don't think he'd be dangerous then?
Even Pat Buchanan would (or should) be afraid of that. Like I said earlier, he doesent give a fig if half the people in his rule were starving in the street. The reason tyrants invade other countries to take them over is to get more leverage and fulfill their meglomaniac dreams.. (Duh !!)
What's the question... would Saddam be "dangerous", or would he be more dangerous than the Wahhabist Murder-Cult of the Kuwaiti and Saudi Slave-Masters whom have been subsidizing Terrorists with their Oil Money for decades?
If memory serves, Saddam had never embargoed US oil purchases before; what makes you believe that he would start embargoing oil in 1990 absent US intervention against him?
What compelling reason was there for us to go to war against Saddam Hussein in 1990 for the "privilege" of buying Oil from terrorist-subsidizing Wahhabist slave-masters in Saudi and Kuwait who are every bit as likely to embargo us as Iraq (considering that they have embargoed us before, in 1973)??
Don't give me bluster and contrived doom-mongering to stack up against the 3,000 dead bodies the Kuwaiti-Saudi murder-cultists gave us on 9/11. Shoulda let Hussein crush the whole lot of 'em back when he was still "our guy".
Even Pat Buchanan would (or should) be afraid of that. Like I said earlier, he doesent give a fig if half the people in his rule were starving in the street. The reason tyrants invade other countries to take them over is to get more leverage and fulfill their meglomaniac dreams.. (Duh !!)
Buchanan was against the 1990-91 Gulf War, and Buchanan was right. Having conquered their "19th Province" (or re-conquered, in their view of the Colonial disputes) Kuwait, Iraq had no armies massing anywhere near the Saudi border.
But even if they had, the Saudis have always been terrorist-supporting Wahhabi Death-Cultists; whereas back in the 80s, Saddam was an SOB -- but he was our SOB, and both sides were tolerably content with the arrangement.
He's a threat now, to be sure. But the fact that he is a threat (and not an unsavory ally against the Wahhabist Evil) is due to US foreign policy blunders of the past.