After the scam of Colin Powell and the pictures he showed in the UN, and one felt then that Saddam was a scoundrel (he may have been on other reasons), and then when it turned out to be a damp squib, I don't believe anything that is said to alarm.
Seeing is believing.
Saddam was a Sunni. He hated the Shias - remember the Marsh Arabs?
It was a genocide type of an affair.
One wonders if he would send stuff to a Shia regime!
Syria, as was Lebanon (Hariri was related by blood with some Saudi King's concubine), is but a Saudi plot. It in no way is suggestive that Assad is Mother Teresa either!
From a geostrategic standpoint, it is essential to have the Arabs divide by their natural and historical animosity - Sunni vs Shia.
The Arabs have a tendency to gang up - ask Israel!