In my opinion, Hussein neede to be deposed. Too many innocent lives were lost because of his regime. However, I take great issue with how this was done, and the excuses that were used.

"But it's to liberate the oppressed peope of Iraq!"

Funny, after the first Gulf War, the Iraqi Kurds tried to overthrow Hussein, but they were counting on US support. America did nothing, so they were massacred. Why did America do nothing? Because Iraq was out of Kuwait, so Kuwaiti oil reserves and oil prices were safe. Nothing else mattered, least of all the people of Iraq.

Ten years later, there's a desperate urge to invade Iraq again. After plenty of ranting about 'terrorist links' and 'illegal weapons of mass diestruction', we're finally given the story that it's about saving the innocent Iraqi civilians. A noble cause, I agree... but how was this acheived? The first even in the war was the bombing of Husseins's Baghdad palaces. Any nitwit could tell you that the Hussein regime would not shelter in such obvious targets, yet they were destroyed first - undoubtedly killing hundreds of cooks, janitors, medics, and other innocent bystanders. The destuction expanded to consume the nation entire infrastructure, even demolishing water purification systems - not exactly going to cripple ol' Saddam, but didn't do a while lot of good for his people. Then there were the usual umpteen thousand bombs that were mis-directed and struck completely innocent targets.
The result: Saddam Hussein captured. Good. Thousands of innocent Iraqis killed, both accidentally and deliberately, by the coalition forces. Lives and livelihoods destroyed, entire cities reduced to a virtually pre-industrial state of existence. As with all wars, the innocent suffered more than anyone else. And now there are even some people who say that the people of Iraq should pay for the rebuilding of their country.

Hussein should've been eliminated by a single, well-planned strike - one bombing raid, based on reliable intelligence to pinpoint his exact location. Instead it was a free-for-all where no-one was safe, least of all those who the war was supposed to protect.[q=War Angel]The USA attacked because it was threatened and attacked[/q]By Iraq? A country that had been demolished once, and then kept in a state of near-perpetual poverty by internation sanctions? I think it's pretty clear by now that Iraq posed very little threat to the US. There's a chance it might have become a threat in the future, but by that same reasoning the US could 'justify' attacking every country in the world and killing its leaders.