"The U. S. could not go after Saddam directly. There is a law against it!"

Good grief. Two points: since when has the US ever regarded a law against taking out a foreign leader that they didn't like? Read your own history!

And there isn't a law against bombing a country that has done nothing to your country? What about a moral code?

The US has considered itself above the law -- especially international law -- and any moral law -- for decades.