The Logic Off Topic list

Thats not what I heard. The Arab coalition wouldn't agree to invading 
Bagdad - although no army stood in the way of the American and British 
armies. They expected and believed that the Iraqi people would rise up 
and revolt. There were isolated rebels in the south and the Kurds in the 
north. Unfortunately, the US and England didn't defend them sufficiently 
and it died out. It takes a real army to defeat that bastard, not a bunch 
of ragtag desserters and shop keepers.

>> Because dropping Saddam would have meant the fundamentalists would
>> have come to power.  Choosing between two evils...  And so after our
>> oil-supply has been secured (Gulf-war), Saddam is now allowed to
>> terrorize his own people, while the western world sits back and does
>> nothing...
>
>The reason Colin Powell gave was that they didn't want to occupy the country
>long term, and that they felt they would have to do that to stabilize it if
>they took out Saddam.  Makes sense, if only from a purely operational
>view....