How many American deaths are worth it to not have Saddam back in power?

[NNN0LHI]

I am not trying to be a smart aleck here at all. I would just like to know what price you would be willing to pay in deaths before you no longer felt it is worth it to remove/kill him? Would it be worth say 1000 Americans dying? Or 10,000? Or 50,000? And also how many deaths of Iraqi civilians or Iraqi soldier conscripts who were forced into the army would be an acceptable number and still make it worth catching him? Where would your cut off point be? I have to admit though, that for me, we have already passed the cut off point. I am only looking for some other views on this subject.

Don

[RC]

1. ZERO!

Saddam was holding the country together till the bushites started interfering.

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. not one

not one single life

[Maple]

2. None at all

on either side.

The invasion never should have happened in the first place.

[whathappened]

4. i can't see

where this man in iraq is any diff then any other ruler in that region , so i would have to say not 1 more life is worth wasteing for iraq , and none would have been better , all we had to do was give sadam a call and put our order in for the oil

[luckyluke]

5. US soldiers, Iraqi civilian deaths - is that all that matters?

Are Iraqi *soldiers'* lives worthless?

In Gulf War I, the US estimated 100,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 300,000 wounded. In this war, of course, the US famously said 'We don't do body counts', so we don't know what the number of Iraqi troops killed is.

-ll

[NNN0LHI]

9. You are right. I edited the post and added Iraqi soldiers. Thank you n/t

[pansypoo53219]

11. of course

we started it all by saying we didn't care if he made moves on Kuwait.
or was that the nut-cons plans all along?

[dpbrown]

6. None

This hyped up invasion for oil has already gone on long enough.

[dsc]

7. Presuming you are asking a question

about future options and not justifying past decisions I have to say that I am unsure of your premice. I don't know that Saddam would return to power if we left and I am very sure that wouldn't be the worst possible outcome. A taliban state with oil or a shiite state to go with Iran are both way worse in my opinion. Or we could merely have an endless civil war that would look like Sudan or Rowanda but with oil as the prize. Given that we created this mess due to our invasion, and that the UN is justifiably telling us to drop dead; we are in our own bed and we have to lie in it. Leaving a country which whose civil authority we destroyed to an unknown fate isn't an option. Not for us nor for them.

[Jacobin]

10. Gee, sounds just like Vietnam reasoning

Pride cometh before the fall.

As if White Anglo infidels from the west are truly going to determine the fate of Iraqis.

Very funny.

We will be run out on our asses, just like all the other infidels who have tried to conquer and occupy Iraq over the ages.

Reading the history of Iraq should have been a requirement of any policy maker who was involved with the idea of invading and conquering Iraq.

[bowens43]

8. I would ask....

how many Iraqis are we willing to kill to bring down the price of oil.

My answer: none

saddam? I didn't see the need to remove him so the answer to your question is zero

[Kbowe]

12. Funny, we didn't even notice Saddam when he was in power...now

he's all we (jQ public) we can talk about.