the dubious need to depose the dictator Saddam Hussein in a world full of many equally bad dictators,
Equally bad dictators? Certainly there are some real bad guys in that line of work, but Saddam (IMO) really was in the elite class.
The need to depose Saddam and Sons was only "dubious" because Bush was doing it, since I have read hundreds of articles, opinions, speeches, by the NYT,WP, and all liberals and their media saying Saddam had to go, under Clinton.
Intellectually dishonest.
I never read a solution to the further "containment" of Saddam and Sons after 12 years.
What would the left had done with him, once sanctions and diplomatic relations had been restored?
Assume his madman tentencies would suddenly leave him, or that he would forgo WMD forever?
Nonsense.