Maybe because he felt WMD would fetch a better price unused in the open market

Submitted by Cary Watmore (Singapore), Jul 6, 2005 at 10:58

An unused wepon on mass destruction fetches a much higher price then one that has been used.

Also he must have killed many of his own men so he had very few operators left

lastly, he wanted access to the oil after the war

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