I would have rather seen Saddam and his cabinet be kicked out of power. Obviously, by force - send some Special Ops units in there and just assasinate the top leaders or stage some revolutionary coup, like we usually do in South America. That would've saved us time, money, human lives, and the embarassment of lacking international backing on the issue With a budget deficit of $100 billion, it seems foolish to wage a war that will easily cost us just as much. I am not anti-war at this point, since our troops are already there and it seems eminent...so now, of course, I fully support the American Army in the Gulf, and best of luck to them. BUT...I think we could've done this whole thing without a full-out war. Of course, I don't want to wait 5-10 years more until Iraq builds enough biochemical weapons to make America exinct, but given our economic situation and the views of the international community, we should've saved the trouble/expense of sending in 300,000 troops. An elite unit of 100 professionals would've been enough. To those that will start saying how hard it is to assasinate Saddam and how that does not guarantee that the regime will change, remember that no argument is flawless in this situation. But this seemed the most practical to me.