[BigAls87Z28]

Probably. He could have hoped that America would get caught in a quagmire, fighting a war on 2 fronts, a war that would never end. A Vietnam, an enemy of hit and run tactics, gurilea fighting. Fanatics pouring into Iraq to kill the western infidels. The longer we are there, the more they hate us. The more we put western companies and wester ideas into the heart of the Muslim world, the more the Fanatics are going to come out of the rafters.
Looks like Saddam got the last laugh.