Why hasn't Saddam killed all Americans?

WASHINGTON -- Americans all should be dead. At least, Americans all should be dead if the Bush administration is correct about Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It believes there is nothing today that prevents a weak and isolated Iraq from striking the United States, the globe's dominant power.

Before the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell proved what we all already knew: Hussein has worked to develop weapons of mass destruction. But would Baghdad really use such weapons when doing so would risk its own survival?

Powell suggested that the pragmatic secular dictator has made common cause with the suicidal religious fanatic. Alas, even the prowar Economist magazine pronounced it "the weakest part of the case for war."