The French wanted him so badly he needed a brutal police intelligence/suppression system and was constantly on guard against being deposed.
You seems to forget that the Police of Fouche wasn't as efficient as the Stasi or the KGB. You should moderate your views of what a XIXth century police can do. In fact, the Police Nationale don't even exist in 1800 and police role was the responsability of various town police and of the Garde Nationale and the Gendarmerie.
And it seems that at least the terrorist attack of the Sainte Nicaise street can be a argument that a little police was a bad thing, when the Royalists were ready to kill 22 people and wounded a hundred only to kill Napoleon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_of_the_Rue_Saint-Nicaise
I'm sorry but I don't buy that. Maybe some of them but most of them were for war.
I find it hard to believe that Louis XVI, who had an Austrian wife, declared war on Austria without the pressure of the revolutionaries. The king secretly supported counter-revolutionaries, asked Austria for help, and later tried to flee there. That doesn't sound like he wanted to declare war Austria. He was pushed into it by the revolutionaries.
There was severals factions in the National Assembly.
The Girondins faction was in favor of the war.
Roberpierre for exemple was first for the war, then he became a strong opponent to the war calling it a plan of Louis XVI and the war being a risk to emerge a Julius Cesar or a Cromwell personality.
For the position of the King, it is difficult to know if he thought war and defeat could be a good way to restaure his power in France, or that he had no others choice that to accept and sign the war bill because his political position was very low after the Varennes escape.
This is the man who reinstated slavery in Saint-Domingue (Haiti).
You said it twice...
Yes, and he reinstated slavery because as a man born in 1769 in Corsica (where the national flag is a decapitated head of a Maure), he was probably very racist and a black man for him was only seen as a potential slave.
Probably his views of the Antillan and Caraibean situation was inspired by his wife who came from a wealthy Creole family and because on Saint Domingue, the former slaves and the former masters killed each others in a most cruel civil war.