Perhaps the best course of action for the U.S. would be for us to completely withdraw from the situation. Bring our troops back home, and let Germany, France, and those few nations that do not see Saddam as a threat handle the situation.

Would my friends on the Mudcat find that a more acceptable role for the U. S.? I look forward to your replies.

By all means. But if it's going to really work, we'll have to get our greedy mitts (and US tax dollars) out of all of the countries where we are propping up repressive and sometimes even murderous (and sometimes even expansionist) regimes, indluding Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Israel. And we would have to stop using our covert operations to de-stabilize democratically elected governments with whom we don't agree, such as Venezuela.