So What? indeed.

No, most US voters don't remember Noriega. The majority of the few that do remember don't care. Ditto Pinochet, or the Contras, or Battista, or a thousand other examples...

The capture of Saddam won't "disembowel the resistance" any more than
getting rid of Dumbya would "disembowel" the Project for a New American Century neoconservative gang.

And that should be "What's another deposed and despised AMERICAN GOVERNMENT CREATED AND SUPPORTED dictator in an endless line of them?"

God Help America.

Best, Greg