You obviously haven't been keeping up...
Saddam was just a harmless little old man who likes Cheetos and Raisin Bran Crunch, and if we had just left him alone with his happy nation of kite-flying citizens and pulled off all those evil sanctions,* he would have quietly gone into retirement and ended up as the center square on Hollywood Squares.
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*Before 9/11, the sanctions on Iraq were constantly decried by the Left as Amerika's oppressive boot on the neck of innocent Iraqis. 5,000 children a month dying, they said. Of course, the leftist Ministry of Truth has quickly reworked this, and now they are constantly condemning the fact that we went to war, when sanctions were obviously working so well.