"Tom, your analogy requires clear and present danger of inaction. That does not exist in this case, so your analogy fails."

See this is where your Achilles heel is Davin, you are not convinced Saddam is working on nuclear weapons to blow Riyadh, Tel Aviv and Teheran to smithereens.

Saddam wants to be Nebuchadnezzar. If you read some of Saddam's speeches and analogies you will see he fantasizes about ruling over the whole middle east.

When he invaded Kuwait he declared it was really part of the ancestral lands of Iraq. Guess what? If you look at his reference he is envisioning the whole lands contained in the Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon as the Ancestral lands of Iraq.

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Nebuchadnezzar
King of Babylonia from 604 BC. Shortly before his accession he defeated the Egyptians at Carchemish and brought Palestine and Syria into his empire. Judah revolted, with Egyptian assistance, in 596 and 587586 BC on both occasions he captured Jerusalem and took many Hebrews into captivity. He largely rebuilt Babylon and constructed the hanging gardens.
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He has eyes on ALL his neighbors lands and with NUCLEAR weapons he could easily take Jordan, Syria, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

In your world Saddam is in this little box. In my world he is in a little box building nuclear weapons.

That makes a big difference and is one of the reasons we have to remove him NOW.

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