of petrodollars for modern weapons, Saddam Hussein set out to make himself master of the

Middle East and its oil fields. He launched successive wars of aggression against Iran and

Kuwait, gathered a large arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, and raced to acquire

nuclear arms. On his orders, his army committed some of the most horrific war crimes since

World War II, executing whole villages and massacring tens of thousands of innocent civilians at

a time, even after his crushing defeat in the Persian Gulf War, the dictator refused to give up his

ambitions. He powerfully preserved and even sought to expand his chemical and biological

arsenal in defiance of numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions, even as his own people

starved he proudly awarded pay to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. President Bush's

claim that the Iraqi regime remains a deadly menace to the region and a challenge to international

order is not new. President Clinton made the same claim throughout his eight years in office, and

the Security Council repeatedly agreed with him.

Some countries have fully allied with the U.S, while others

Greece, Turkey is a NATO ally eager to join the European Union. It owes $30 billion to the

opposing the invasion on Iraq. The reason for this objections are because if the invasion takes

with Hussein, only to finish his father's unfinished job in the early nineties.

governments have said in the past that they have never been provided details on the links

1991 the goal was the liberation of Kuwait, not the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. That prospect

place, Iraq's borders with their neighbors are going to close, causing tremendous economic

unsolicited support from some of its allies for its war against Iraq. U.S. Defense Secretary

Mr. Rumsfeld said he discussed Iraq with his 18 NATO colleagues over dinner Tuesday after a

community. In the other hand, Turkey and some other Iraq's neighborhood countries are

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