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IMO, Saddam's been asking for it. He doesn't recognize the "no-fly-zones" that were set up to protect minorities among his own people, and often fires on US and UK planes that patrol those areas.

He's a fiend, simply put, and if you don't believe me look up information on his biography.

Not that that in itself is cause for a war. The reason for war is that he's ignored UN demands time and time again, he's got outlawed weapons and has used them multiple times, and in the present, terrorist-heavy world it would amaze me if some of his anthrax, VX, and the like didn't get into the hands of Al Queda or other groups like them.

The original Gulf War never really ended - the cease-fire was conditional upon his disarmament. Do you honestly think he's disarmed? And thus we resume what should have been finished long ago, that we halted in the first place because of pressure from the same groups that said, "Sure, give Hitler Austria, France, and Poland. He won't need any more."

So in short, you won't need to worry about WWIII just yet. But if you leave Saddam in there you might have to worry about smallpox in New York or L.A. or London. And THAT could theoretically kill a third of the country, and make no distinction whatsoever between military and civilians.

And lest you be thinking of the cost in human life from a humanitarian standpoint, don't forget that because of international sanctions and Saddam's refusal to put the welfare of his people above his military developments and palaces, Iraqis are starving every day. (I heard one pundit quote a 5,000/day casualty rate.) The US food and medical airdrops which accompany our war planes would be quite welcome to these folk. You think Saddam would feed anyone like that?