re: What should the USA have done after 11 September 2001?

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He was an asset that strayed off the reservation.

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Of course Saddam "had to go." I've always believed that.

But, if the COSTS of deposing him far exceed the benefits of deposing him, it's easy to make a persuasive argument that the US should NOT have invaded Iraq in order to depose Saddam.

Now, if we would have simply occupied the New Iraq for as long as it took to take a trillion dollars worth of their oil for our own gas tanks, then, YES, Saddam had to go.