You would have preferred leaving him in power?
Name one good thing it has done for us to have him gone -- and I mean for US, not for freedom or democracy or the Iraqi people or any of that BS. Iraq won't be free or a democracy anyway, what it needs is a new dictator and a return to the stability of earlier.
We have more Iraqis getting killed in the streets per day than we ever did under Hussein -- in fact, if this keeps up, we'll soon be able to start using an absolute-numbers comparison. The Iraqis have the USA to thank for that.
The region is now unstable in a way it never was with Hussein, and we're the only thing holding it together.
These folks who now argue that anyone who disagrees with them is a traitor, they're the ones who got us in this f-ed up mess to begin with. It's a little ironic, and painful, to watch them run at the mouth like this.