Why did us officials decide to leave saddam hussein in charge of iraq after the persian gulf war?

Administration officials rejected the idea, largely because they feared that the Iraqi leader would go into hiding, as Panamanian strongman Manuel A. Noriega had done during the 1989 U.S. military intervention in Panama, and that U.S. troops would be unable to find him.

d is the correct answer

~courtney

the correct answer is b, "fertility rates are increasing, so populations will grow more quickly in the future."