You know - we are learning the hard way why Saddam was such a brutal dictator. At the first sign of any dissention, the opposition was rounded up and tortured and killed.
I believe that some of the Iraqi people deserve better than that. BUT - we see how Saddam was able to rule for so long.
Our view or this war and goals don't quite line up with the no-mercy method that these evil Muslim thugs understand. We try to be as humane as possible - which plays right into the thugs hands.
What's the answer? I don't know. How to deal with monsters? Treat them like monsters and hunt them down and kill them. No effort to "capture alive".