Fossil, clearly not. There comes a time to stand up and fight, and there is good reason to remain prepared to fight. I don't think there was a good reason to bomb the shit out of Iraq.

Ok, sure, let's take dictators out of power - that's a tricky thing. For one, the USA has assisted and made lots of deals w/ dictators over the years, so our actions to take out one of them sounds really pretty hypocritical and self-serving. (The USA helped Pinochet into power, the USA worked with Saddam for many years until he gave them the finger). Second, how come we are so perfect that we can enter a soverign country and remove it's leaders because we decide they are 'bad enough'? Very delicate issues.

What would I do? Before we bombed Baghdad, I would have continued to use diplomacy to isolate Saddam, and worked through the UN to keep weapons inspectors on the ground. Dictators under spotlights have a hard time doing bad things.

Bombs and occupation were not the answer in this particular situation.