I need some help understanding this.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:39 pm

Saddam Hussein was a dictator that served US interests for decades.

In the late 80s, he started reaching for more.

Given the fact that he was clever and wily enough to grasp power in Iraq, and maintain it for decades, why was he so stupid as to test the US on Kuwait?

Perhaps I'm just overestimating his intelligence...but he didn't scratch and claw his way to the top in Iraq by being a total moron.

Iraqis are now dying in thick bunches. Iraq has very little chance of avoiding widespread Civil War, and very little chance of emerging from this without being partitioned in some way. So even if he was designing to sow chaos, I fail to see how it availed him.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:00 pm

He was just land grabbing and power hungry. I think he tried to mask it in some reunification concept, like kuwait used to be iraq before it was subdivided by the brits a ways back.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely was written with saddam in mind.

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:39 pm

...it's all about oil...he was a tool for the U.S.A. who then rolled on him when his usefullness waned.

sin, Martyred

Terry in Crapchester · Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:05 pm

Mister Bushice wrote:Absolute power corrupts absolutely was written with saddam in mind.

Not exactly, but he is one example that proves the rule.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:00 pm

thanks, mvscal.