[Glenn]

The goal isn't Baghdad. The goal is Saddam. Unless he intends to bed down with the unwashed, he's vulnerable.

[piasa]

That all depends on whether we are willing to bomb a United Nations World Heritage Site or not. Those reconstructed historic sites of his would be pretty good places for a despot to tuck his bunkers... remember the furor when the Taliban took out those Buddhas? Europe was more incensed about that than about all the poor people who were getting their limbs chopped off in the name of Allah. Or, he may be tucking his hideouts beneath hospitals.