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Your right if it was to drag on for years with ordinary people being called up I'd be against that.
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I think any right minded person would be against a conflict which could drag on for years but, lest we forget, we DID actually sell most of the weapons & technology to the Iraqis - the very stuff we're now saying they should get rid of.
Yes, you're right, Saddam is, no doubt, a very evil man who runs a very cruel regime BUT let's be honest, he's not the only one in the world and President Bush isn't threatening to march into their country is he? What about North Korea? They've got nuclear weapons that can reach the US - Bush spouted a lot of high handed talk about what they were going to do to the North Koreans and has done precisely nothing .
What about India & Pakistan? Again, they have a nuclear capability but no-one's talking of sending a task force over there to sort THEM out.
There are dictatorships, human rights abuses and cruel governments the world over (half of them in South America!) but President Bush seems quite happy to let them continue. AND the USA itself is breaching every article of the Geneva Convention by it's treatment of 'prisoners' in Guantanemo Bay.
Doesn't it make you wonder why Saddam Hussein is now 'villain of the month'? Why pick on Iraq and leave North Korea etc alone? What has Iraq got that these other dictatorships haven't? Couldn't be oil could it?
Call me cynical, call me naive, but I have serious doubts about the 'motives' behind this.