Well, this has been bugging me for quite some time, and since nobody else is saying it, I guess I will:

YES, Saddam should be taken out.

NO, bombing Baghdad is not a good way to do it. What's needed is a task force or trained assassins, CIA/Navy Seals/James Bond style, to go in undercover and kill the bastard. Same thing should have taken care of Bin Laden. And don't tell me the US doesn't have that sort of operative, or could not do it if it wanted to. Just ask Salvador Allende...

The very fact that Bush is not taking that route but instead wants to unleash US armed forces on innocent civilians should make it abundantly clear that this is not about Saddam.

It's about controlling the oil and setting the precedent for US world hegemony. I quote again Danny Glover's courageous and true statement at last Saturday's New York peace rally:

"Our democracy has been hijacked by an administration of liars and murderers."

Michael