Logically your right....but....that is not how the rage heads fight....they sneak up behind you and throw a grenade or hold some old lady hostage. Then when you do hit them they kill some weak old lady (isreal) in retaliation....ie: they are p_ _ _ies....(excuse my language)
Several responses:
First, you make the mistake of using "logic" and "Iraq" in the same thought. They have a history of illogical warfare.
Second, Iraq can hit Israel (and wants to), but not us.
Third, Iraq knows they'll lose if we do invade (which I don't think will happen, but let's run with it). They'd launch on Israel exactly because they hate Israel so badly, and before we can get to their missiles.
Fourth, anybody's attack on Israel will be seen as a green light for all other Arab states to attack Israel. It might well ignite a regional war against Israel.
Fifth, an attack on Israel, coupled with the likelihood of U.S. assistance to Israel, causes a cessation of regional oil exports to the U.S.
Sixth, it's a wedge between us and Europe. They get to choose between Middle-East oil, and support of the U.S. France, for one, has not been shy about thumbing their noses at the Iraq embargo.
There's more -- but you see that it makes sense.
Yes, if they aren't chicken.
Shalom.
You expect logic out of Sadamm Hussein? Actually there is some logic. First of all, he did it the last time we bombed his military. Second, the reason he did it was to try to rally the rest of the Muslim world to his aide. Didn't work too well last time, might work better this time, who knows?
This time he might have a better chance of convincing others, including some Europeans, that he is just standing up to the Jew/American alliance which is oppressing the Palistinian people.