I mean, you say: The ultimate determining factor here is how much pain can Saddam inflict on the American people if we take him out.
Do you think his ego will differentiate between being crushed in Iraq as opposed to being castrated in Russia?
And how can he personally inflict pain posthumously? Or are you saying his minions will kill less of us if he is not dispatched but rather granted exile?
What are you saying?
That is a problem whose solution has already been worked out by the United States, England, Russia, France, China, Israel, India and Pakistan. Remember?