According to The Daily Telegraph on March 4, 2002: ” ‘Saddam must go,’ [former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher] declared in her indomitable fashion. ‘His continued survival after comprehensively losing the Gulf War has done untold damage to the West’s standing in a region where the only unforgivable sin is weakness. His flouting of the terms on which hostilities ceased has made a laughing stock of the international community.’ ”
– Con Coughlin, Saddam: His Rise and Fall, Page xxxiv