He's already started on research for "smaller bite-sized" nukes - a perfectly clear indication that his aim is to finally eradicate the idea of nuclear weapons as Last-resort Strategic weapons.
Yep.

If Saddam has nuke/chem/bio weapons, he is demonstrating more restraint and concern for humanity than our regime is/would.

Hmmmm, there's something to be said for a secular state over a fundamentalist.

Even when the fundamentalist state is the USofA.