[A. Pole]

"was it worth to pay $500 billion (and possibly trillion or more in future) 3,000 US lives (and more in future) to replace him with some Islamists?"

Yes. Yes it was. They aren't trying to kill us anymore.

$500 plus billion invested in technology and medical research or else would go a very long way to secure energy independence and save countless lives.

Saddam Hussein was not worth so much!

[Cogadh na Sith]

$500 plus billion invested in technology and medical research or else would go a very long way to secure energy independence and save countless lives.

$500 Billion of government spending would pay for a commission to study 'energy independence'! I didn't know you were so in favor of big government spending crowding out private sector innovation.

Not a conservative idea....

Saddam Hussein was not worth so much!

We had already spent that in the previous 10 years occupying Iraq from the air enforcing the no-fly-zones.

Do you suggest we should have continued the no-fly-zones and sanctions starving Iraqis forever?

And besides, what do we do after we have spent $500 billion enforcing the no-fly-zones, losing pilots and enforcing the sanctions enriching France and Kofi Annan and at the end of it Saddam has nukes?