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Originally Posted by astralis
ba,
sure, but he dramatically miscalculated what it would take to keep him there. 9-11 was an oh-shite moment for him, but he never believed, deep-down, that the US would want to pluck him out.
instead, he tried to play the nuclear bluff. but instead of deterring the US, it magnified the perceived threat. this was part of the reason why saddam was so dangerous: he had a history of making this type of miscalculation about what he could or could not do. this was apparent from the iran-iraq war, the persian gulf war, and very finally the iraq war.
he would have done far better for himself if he had pulled a libya and abjectly bowed down.
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We supported him in his war with Iraq even after he used WMD. I don't know what nuclear bluff you refer to. he was claiming to us he had no wmd wasn't he? Wasn't it us who told the Un arms team to leave in 2003? Didn't we tell him to turn over the stockpiles of WMD he didnt have or we would invade?( That line could of been in a Kubrick movie)
His bluster was about maintaining deterrence agaisnt a hostile Iranian state on his borders. One effeect of removing Saddam was removing a state hostile to Iran from it's border