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He's taking on Saddam first because this is the enemy we can SEE, and he was in a position to give some really nasty WMD's to the ones we CAN'T see.
Besides, the guy has reportedly snuffed out a million people over the last 20 years; isn't that reason enough?
Yes, I DO know there are other world leaders that have been equally horrendous, but we can't go after them all - we had enough trouble getting going with THIS one.

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"Besides, the guy has reportedly snuffed out a million people over the last 20 years; isn't that reason enough? "

Nah, Russia and China have snuffed out even more and we contained them. We have contained Iraq for the past dozen years. This is about oil, regime change or Israel, not some body count.