attempted to locate and destroy Saddam's weapons of mass destruction facilities, Israel's attack ten years earlier had scared Saddam into hiding redundant facilities all over Iraq. In an attempt to keep Saddam under control, the United Nations passed several resolutions that created sanctions and inhibited Iraq's actions.
             Though the United States had previously supported Iraq against Iran and as part of the Soviet containment policy, the first Bush administration eventually came to realize that Saddam was too much of a threat to their vision of peace and interests in the Middle East. The administration, and every administration thereafter, was divided into two camps comprising of the 'hawks' and 'doves'. The doves preferred a policy of determent or containment, as the believed that Saddam was a rational leader and that there were more important problems in the world. The
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