Hold onto your wallets!

[hotwine]

Foodster, Hussein intended his weapons programs to intimidate his neighbors and thus control the ME oil producers... I have no doubt about that. And he was succeeding in dodging UN sanctions by bribing key members with oil allotments at bargain prices. As for a direct link between him and Al Queda.... have no idea, but Abu Nidal was given sanctuary in Bahgdad until turning up his toes a year or so ago; and that character was a charter member of the Arab terrorist network, call it Al Queda or whatever. I don't care what group each slimeball pledges allegiance to, I put 'em all in the same slimeball basket.