Sorry, I am confused. I complained about civilian deaths perpetrated by our government. Those are the deaths that concern us, since we are vicariously responsible for the wrong doing of our government, and mass murder is wrong doing.
Yes, I know that Saddam was killing people but so are a whole bunch of other bad guys in governments around the world. Do you want to be the world's cop? I say no, let's just worry about nations that are a direct threat to us.
If there is one thing that we know now it is that Iraq was harmless. They were not behind 9/11 and we removed no weapons from circulation by the war. We just killed innocent people and made a lot of people angry at us. On balance, we have made terrorism more, not less likely.
North Korea is much more of a threat. They really do have WMDs, the real kind, nuclear. You will see that the military option is not in play with them. Our nation is acting like the proverbial school yard bully. We only pick on the weaklings. We won't mess with the guys with real power.
I expected better from our nation!