has anyone tried running the numbers on where we’d be if Saddam Hussein were still in power?

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Well, since it has been pretty well demonstrated that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were antagonists – both vieing for bragging rights over the oil-bearing sands of the ME – and that the only discernible terrorist activity going on in pre-invasion Iraq was in the protected no-fly zones controlled by the Kurds – the answer is – the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist numbers would be WAY DOWN if the secular Sunni Saddam Hussein were still in power.

But why let facts get in the way of a good bodice-ripper, eh?

The swarthy Saddam and his al-Qaeda henchmen loomed above the heaving bosoms of Lady Liberty . . .