To keep up his historical average
which is what you are comparing *now* to, he'd have to invade another country (with what?) or attack the Kurds again (how?) or attack the southern Shia again (how?).
Why just to appoach his numbers he'd have to let loose some of that WMD he had stockpiled on his own Sunni people. Oh wait....
You're comparing apples and oranges.
Cue crappy post about how I "believe the current leftist revisionism that Saddam wouldn't hurt a fly".......