Saddam Hussein Ambition - Dick Cheney

Should all [of Hussein's WMD] ambitions be realized, the implications would be enormous for the Middle East and the US. Armed with an arsenal of these weapons of terror and a seat atop 10% of the world's oil reserves, Saddam Hussein could then be expected to seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world's energy supply, directly threaten America's friends throught the region, and subject the US or any other antion to nuclear blackmail.

Specch to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, August 2002