The best way to have handled Iraq would have been to kill Hussein. One against tens of thousands. He deserved a bullet in the brain anyway due to what he ordered be done to the Kurds. But war generates lotsa dollars--just ask Mr Halliburton and the folks in the arms industry. But folks get all fuzzy when they have to think of that instaed of war. Retail killing as opposed to wholesale
slaughter. Besides, if some leaders started thinking that way, the arms manufactureres would apply the logic to them.