<You can't use the lack of competing affirmative courses of action as justification for ANY course of action.

I can't justify a course of action simply because there is no alternative to it? Remember, doing nothing is also a course of action.

Good Lord, if your mind works like this, you have GOT to get away from college. How the hell do you manage to cross a street?

This is pointless all right.

Use your brain. There ARE no other alternatives. Either Hussein is removed by force, or Hussein stays in power. Each have consequences and possible futures connected to them. The decision was made by our government that the possibilities connected to another thirty years of the Saddam dynasty were worse. You can disagree with this decision, but you can't pretend that some mythical "third way" exists.