And your assumption is that we are NOT doing these things? Were you not listening to the part about cutting off their finances, intelligence agencies being focussed on terrorism, foreign countries arresting people, an information agency set up for getting the message to the Islamic world? ALL THESE THINGS YOU SUGGEST ARE BEING DONE!!!!
Iraq has weapons of mass destruction,a nd is trying to get a nuclear bomb if it doesn't already have one. They have shown NO hesitation about using such a device. They have refused to allow weapons inspectors in their country, in direct violation of their agreement with the UN. Whether they are directly linked to September 11 or not, they certainly are in cahoots with al Qaeda. Ditto Iran and probably North Korea as well.
Normal nuclear deterrence does not work with psychotic regimes. Removal of Saddam is the only answer, unless you eventually want to see him hold the entire world hostage.
So lets kill him. We can read a watch from space. According to clinton we have technology that not only can tell if someone is in a building but who it is. Saddam isn't buried in an undergound iron bunker.
We've spent how many months trying to get OBL and now Bush says he's "virtually irrelevant". Do you think a man with infinitely more resources like Saddam will be easier if we take the same approach we did in Afghanistan?
If we are doing all the things I suggested we aren't doing them well. John Walker knew OBL was planning an attack and I believe he even knew a few details and he wasn't even trying.
But we should bomb countries and their people anyway? Obliterate the haystack to destroy the needle? And I guess China and Russia are next? Or maybe well get Iran, N.Korea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc. first. Because we can.