Two decades ago, having consolidated his Iraqi dictatorship with blood baths and traded billions
             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 are still thinking about it. French
             President Jacques Chirac has proposed a two-step plan for resuming inspections backed by the
             threat of military force. Russia supports resuming weapons inspections in Iraq, but has opposed
             the use of military force. However, Moscow is increasingly frustrated with Iraq's stubbornness on
             the issue, and observers say Russia would not defend Saddam in a standoff with the international
             community. In the other hand, Turkey and some other Iraq's neighborhood countries are
             opposing the invasion on Iraq. The reason for this objections are because if the invasion takes
             place, Iraq's borders with their neighbors are going to close, causing tremendou...