[MikefromOhio]

Do I feel safer because we've spent $300,000 ousting a tinpot dictator from a country that didn't threaten American freedom?

Your numbers are a bit off, aren't they? AS for Saddam being a "tinpot dictator", the moment we would have turned our back on him, he would have hit us.

[churchillbuff]

, he would have hit us."""

With what, spitwads? And we weren't turning our back on him. We had him cornered, and had surveillance flights day in and day out.

[RightWhale]

Saddam said he would hit Israel. Rain of Fire. It was just a matter of time, and that would have started something even bigger than if he just hit the US. That, I think, is the real game.