For Bush, and the intervention in Iraq, the meta-narrative of stability largely employed the sub-topic of Saddam Hussein’s alleged possession of nuclear weapons and the threat these weapons posed. The stability meta-narrative provided one avenue through which American society was under threat and as a result of this provided both a construction of us and the discursive other. The threat worked equally in constituting who Americans were as it did to demonstrate who the evil other was. Additionally, this theme was supplemented with discussions of Hussein’s link to terrorism, specifically al Qaeda, and the potential distribution of WMDs to terrorist organizations. These sub-texts became the objects which posed a threat to international stability and upon which the Bush administration attempted to construct a justifiable intervention. This chapter highlights how the initial representations of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein worked together to build an image of impending doom for the west, “[t]hey portrayed a picture to the American public of Saddam Hussein as a serial aggressor who could not be allowed to possess WMD … Hussein’s Iraq could neither be contained nor deterred from using its alleged WMD” (Schmidt & Williams 2008, 201). The trope of nuclear weapons was utilized to produce an image of Hussein as a legitimate threat to stability, not dissimilarly to the neoconservative driven framings of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. This chapter outlines the production, sustaining, and challenge phases for this representational strand. In doing so it demonstrates the attempts at constructing a dominant discourse which draws the connection between Hussein and WMDs.