Why do you approach this question with no even one reference to the many bombings of US interests and murders of innocent US citizens over the past 20 something years?, not to mention the 9-11 attacks which forced the USA to respond.

Even if Bush lost the election some other person would be in the WH now and have to deal with this.

Saddam is a homicidal maniac, not merely foreigners but even his OWN FAMILY. The man is unsafe even for his own countrymen. Put it this way in London he would be target practice for the Police sniper unit.

The man also happens to have control of an army, what is left of it, and he is full of threats.

It is not that he should be defeated, disarmed and see the firing squad that executes him - hopefully Iraqis, but that it should be done asap and to hell with the UN if it stands in the way.