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Oh. I thought he perhaps meant a DIFFERENT Option 3. One that hadn't already been tried, and hadn't already failed.

What was option 3. Political and economic sanctions? A REALLY stern telling off?

To be honest, this is obviously something the media are very guilty of.

I'm not ignoring anything. You were the one trying to boil things down to simple quantifiable figures. My point is that you cannot simply take a hard stance that 'whatever happens in another country is none of our business, and they should left to get on with it, however distasteful'...

Interesting sums. Why have you not included the 'human years' lost to the ethnic groups that his regime were systematically slaughtering, before the invasion?

Quite. Particular in a case like Iraq, where 'suppression' actually translates as 'genocide'.

That's a whole different argument, to the one the OP started. Saddam's elite had no more intention of living the lives of 'fundamentalist muslims' than I do. I don't the Kuran implicitly lists the requirements for a good muslim to stock up on marble bathrooms, gold taps and western prostitutes.

I think you meant to write that 'SOME people in Iraq would be better off'? I'm not sure that the Kurds or the Marsh Arabs were particularly enjoying life under Saddam.