This is from a column by George F. Will of the Washington post, printed in this morning's edition of the Louisville Courier-Journal:

On "This Week," Villepin was asked: Given that Saddam Hussein has said that his mistake was invading Kuwait before he acquired nuclear weapons, do you now believe that Israel was right to bomb the reactor outside Baghdad and that France was wrong to help build it? French diplomacy has sunk to this Villepin gaseousness:

"I think you cannot remake history. You can take lessons, you can imagine different scenarios. I don't think it's possible, today, definite answers. I think that the idea of preemptive strike might be a possibility. Have it as a doctrine, as a theory. I don't think it is really useful. Sometimes by using force preemptively we might create more violence and we have to be always thinking to what are the consequences."

1. Can someone please tell me what he is talking about?
2. Does Saddams wishing he had a nuclear weapon before invading Kuwait not scare everyone?