The life of every Iraniam child, the life of every ordinary citizen, the life of every iranian soldier, the life of every American or european soldier is just as important as the life of Hussein, yet it seems that thousands of those lives are of no conseqence in this war.
Surely it is possible to pin-point Saddam Hussein and eliminate him without having to sacrifice thousands. (How many palestininian and israeli lives have been sacrificed and yet the israelis have refused to eliminate Arafat despite several opportunities). Is there some "Fifth Protocol" among world leaders by which they have agreed not to kill each other?
I think this war is inevitable because the manufacurers of weapons of mass destruction who make billions of dollars and pounds through government contracts (and who presumably hand out millions to the politicians for the contracts) have decided that the war is necessary to dispose of surplus stocks and to "field-test" their latest weapons.