Congress reacted, the public reacted, and this made it all the more complicated for the United States to continue its, its secret assistance to the Iraqi military.

Now the same fear was being projected on Iraq — that he was an alarming, threatening leader in the region who was out to grab the oil weapon and use it against the West.

Everyone was evacuated so it’s hard to find out what’s happening.

In the 1980’s, our Arab allies in the region and our own assessment convinced us that Iraq might be a new kind of moderate Arab leader, that [Saddam] could be brought into the moderate Arab...

The key is, how fast does it get hot?