I don't think Saddam's execution was a mistake. If you want to start pointing fingers, might as well go back to the Clinton Administration. Bush Jr. had to deal with Clinton's unfinished business (and you can throw Osama Bin Laden in that mess too).
The whole claim of WMD's isn't just a "Bushy" agenda. Clinton repeatedly uttered those very same words:
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If we turn our backs on his defiance, the credibility of U.S. power as a check against Saddam will be destroyed. We will not only have allowed Saddam to shatter the inspection system that controls his weapons of mass destruction program
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They are designed to degrade Saddam's capacity to develop and deliver weapons of mass destruction, and to degrade his ability to threaten his neighbors
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So we will pursue a long-term strategy to contain Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction and work toward the day when Iraq has a government worthy of its people
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And mark my words, he will develop weapons of mass destruction. He will deploy them, and he will use them
I can't even count how many times Clinton said "WMD" in this transcript:
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stori...s/clinton.html
So don't go yapping about how Bush Jr. just made up the WMD myth to attack Iraq. I believe it was Clinton's incompetence that forced Bush Jr. to have to deal with the mess left behind.
And as for letting Saddam live? Yeah that would work. Remember when they pulled a weak and sickly Saddam out of his underground hideout? The guy was still defiant and all that did was fuel anti-US opposition.
That's what we need. Let him live in a nice federal prison while our tax dollars feed and cloth him. Let him live so he can write a best-selling book that further undermines the already tarnished global image of the US.
Christ. Sometimes I swear people don't think before they post in here.
To all the anti-Bush lemmings. Try opening up a Poli Sci book and reading. The ignorant rants are getting old. "Bush invented WMD's to invade Iraq" "Bush Jr. is finishing daddy's war" "It was all for oil" "It's Bush's fault that the US is outsourcing so many jobs". blah blah blah. Just because you got into politics 2 years ago doesn't justify ignoring all political history prior to Bush Jr.