Getting rid of the menace.(COMMENTARY)

Byline: Assad Homayoun, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Debate is ongoing in the United States and world community regarding the U.S. decision of removing Iraq's Saddam Hussein, but there can be no question he represents a menace to the stability of the region, to world peace and to his own people.

Twice in the past he tried to develop nuclear weapon to dominate the Persian Gulf and intimidate Iraq's neighbors. Presently he is accumulating different kinds of WMD and determined to acquire nuclear weapon. He has violated 16 times the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council. He, after disintegration of Iranian armed forces, and the decimation of military …