Originally Posted by onetime2

Let's throw a little more realism into this argument shall we? How difficult was it to get world support to confront Saddam? Hell, just getting the UN to enforce already in place treaties was impossible.

Much of this difficulty was due to Saddam's ability to closely align economic interests of countries like France, Germany, Russia, etc. The Saudis have far stronger alliances and any attempt to confront them would have been 1000 times more difficult.