LONDON -- Everyone seems agreed that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is a very nasty piece of work, a brutal tyrant with homicidal tendencies who cannot be trusted one inch.
Everyone is also agreed that, since Iraq's ejection from Kuwait over a decade ago, Hussein has continued to accumulate develop hideous weapons of mass destruction in total defiance of U.N. resolutions, weapons that include biological agents that kill painfully, gases that choke people to death and missiles that could carry these horrific items into all neighboring countries and as far as the eastern Mediterranean.
It is further agreed that he is on his way to building nuclear warheads, although he may not be there yet. But the intention is clear. He is, in short, a monster.