Is world better without Saddam?

[abaris]

Here again...because some dictators get away with it, because the system is gameable, because the world is imperfect, because bad things...even worse things...are happening elsewhere...these are not, to my mind, reasons to allow any specific dictator to continue doing his thing.   

We did have a plan.  We had many plans.  Realize that we generated mountains and mountains of plans because there is an army of people who do nothing but generate them day in and day out.  Our failure had nothing to do with a lack of plans, or planning options.

First, the majority of dictators gets away with it. Because they don't rule over regions of interest or because they lick western boot.

Secondly, criminally ignorant plans, based on the abysmally wrong assumption that Iraq is even a country filled with people that want to live together. Based on abysmally wrong intelligence, speaking of WMDs, when every other western service came to different conclusions. And no plans for the aftermath, besides Bush's bullshit of the shining beacon of democracy. Which, since the people didn't want to live together in the first place, was rubbish right from the get go.

As I said. All of this has been pointed out before the first Abrams crossed the border. It was in the news on a daily basis, with commentaries of real experts on the region and it's difficulties.