But only if Sadaam were an idiot would he do that. ... Sadaam sitting on 25 million barrels of oil is not in the cards.He has already been proven to be an "idiot". He only needs to keep about 20,000 people real happy and maybe another 100,000 kinda happy, and thats it; not the whole country. Children are starving every day over there and he could care less. His goal is power, and not necessarily money for the peasants. Dont forget , a hungry peasant is a preoccupied one, no time for rebellion. He's a true Visogoth; no one can even pretend to know what he'd do, and you'd have to be blind to not see what he's capable of.
He is a power hungary dictator that presides over a stalinist regime of terror. No doubt about it. And he is willing to starve his people as long as he is able to feed his army and apparatchiks that keep him in power. But that is direct result of the sanctions on Iraq. Does anyone really think Sadaam cares about the lives of his people? Of course not. But again - what would prompt Sadaam to sit on his oil if we had let him take over Saudi and Kuwait? There would be no reason for it first of all. But even if he did it would not be the end of the world for the West (and might even be a blessing in the long run.)