Last week, US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, upped the ante on Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein, indicating that President Bush, as Commander-in-Chief of America’s armed forces, could, if necessary, commence war on the Iraqi dictator, without Congressional approval, in light of his attempts to obtain chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction.While Washington’s rhetoric against Saddam has reached its highest pitch, there is every reason to believe that it is just that: rhetoric, rather tha…
