...before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, "Armed with these weapons of terror and a seat at the top of 10% of the world's oil reserves, Saddam Hussein could...States or any other nation to nuclear blackmail." Stripped to its essence, this is a direct invocation of the Carter Doctrine. To underscore this, it...

...was a factor as the US Vice President Dick Cheney, warning of Iraq's ambitions, said in August 2002: "Saddam Hussein could then be expected to seek domination of the entire Middle East [and] take control of a great proportion of the world's energy supplies..." ' Der Politologe Herfried...

...world. The whole range of weapons of mass destruction then would rest in the hands of a dictator [who] could then be expected to seek domination of the entire Middle East . . . directly threaten America's friends throughout the region, and subject the United States or any...

...of terror, and seated atop 10 percent of the world's oil reserves," Cheney said in the first speech, "Saddam Hussein could then be expected to seek domination...States or any other nation to nuclear blackmail." In his January 2002 State of the Union speech, President Bush made a slightly softer version of the...