I agree it would be nice to have a world wide peaceful holiday season but since that is not possible, here is what will happen. We will look at the techincalities from the Gulf War, TECHNICALLY, it never ended, and we are still at war with Iraq and we will notice this. So about going to war, don't be afraid, if we do all that will happen is:

1)We will bomb his 'military' bases until there is nothing left, he will never know that our planes were there until it is too late,
2) He will send out his tanks in hope of shooting a few of our soldiers, 3
) He will bury his tanks in the sand like last time,
4) We will fly around at night with heat sensors and blow his tanks up, again like last time,
5) He will recruit every male from age 14 and up to fight for him
6) We will either take them prisoner or blow them all up
7) Saddam will surrender AGAIN and we will confiscate all his biological weapons and data reffering to such.
8) We will complete the cycle X number of times until he is dead and somebody with the capacity to complete a logical thought process comes to power.

That is about how it will work, there may be a few minor variations from my prediction but it will not be a big bloodshed(at least not for the UN forces). In the Gulf War how many people died? 100? Not many more than 100, and most all of those were 'training accidents'.