Reply #7: Here's why

[Hippo_Tron]

1) Saadam was not necessarilly in Baghdad. If Saadam Hussein was an easy person to kill, Clinton would've done it.

2) The war was not just about Saadam it was about getting rid of the entire regime and making putting a new government into power. Even if he and his two sons had surrendered and left the country in the 48 hours Bush gave them, we still would've sent the troops in to secure the country not just Baghdad. If an enemy invaded America and just took washington DC but didn't move the troops anywhere else we'd just set up the government somewhere else.

3) Even if we had proof Saadam was in Baghdad you can't just drop bombs all over the city too many civilians would die, therefore you need to get ground troops and tanks into the city. There's two ways in, land and air and you can't land airplanes in a city controlled by your enemy now can you.