[smpc]

Once Saddam's regime is gone,there will be only one country in the region with any kind of modern military capability.That country is an ally of the USA.Im sure that is ONE of the reasons someone could argue for force rather than containment.

[Grampa Dave]

Once Saddam's regime is gone, the Iranian people will be mounting the heads of the current rulers, the Murdering Mullahs on pikes.

Israel will get poed at Syria and take out the trash there and in the Lebannon the puppet of Syria.

Then we can handle NK if the ChiComs and the Japanese haven't handled them.