Saddam Hussein is a dangerous and evil man, and the world would be a better and safer place if he were removed from power. A killer from early adolescence, he is brutal and psychopathic even by the high standards of inhumanity prevailing in his region.
His constant and unremitting search for weapons of mass destruction or mass terror augurs little good for the Middle East and the world. It has been argued, however, that even if he were successfully to develop such weapons, he would be unlikely ever to use them. After all, the military potential of Iraq is very limited, and Saddam, while utterly ruthless, is not known to be personally suicidal. His enemies have, and will always have, far more destructive weapons than he can ever hope to obtain. By using any such weapons as he managed to develop, he would risk total annihilation.
If he accepted this reasoning, however, he would not have tried to develop the weapons in the first place.
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