Nope.
Somehow -- you managed to both invert what I said, AND invert the whole Focus of the Article, all in a single, apparently-dyslexic Posting!!
Impressive. Quite. Indeed.
Lemme help you through this, kindergartener (I'll use "puppets", since you seem to understand the medium).
AHEM: The ARTICLE says that the mangy "Puppets" in Iraq no longer have the "Big Bad Nasties", because the "Puppet Master" decided to Export the "Big Bad Nasties" all over the world as soon as he figured out that his strings were about to be cut.
I SUGGESTED (as I have suggested on this Forum... for years) that while Colin Powell was stalling the UN, Dubya Bush could have rescinded "Falling Down Ford"s Executive Order 12333 concerning Assassination (it's an E.O., any President can rescind the Order) and given the Boys in Black a chance to hone their wet-work skills on one Saddam Hussein and his Boyz.
And, if Assassination didn't work... we could always go to war anyway, of course.
Assassination of an Aggressive Enemy Tyrant is, compared to outright War, simply the morally-preferable Option for the Christian Ethicist (See the example of Ehud, Judges 3:15-26; no "collateral damage", just one dead "Terrorist Puppet Master") -- and should be attempted first.
That's all I'm saying.
NOW do you understand, Moppet?
best, op
Nonsense regurgitated is still nonsense. Back-handed criticism of Bush is even more nonsensical.
As for the half-assed assassination schemes goes they have been tried many times and were not successful. Since very few knew where the man of many doubles was at any given time and we had no intelligence assets to speak of in Iraq the impossibility of your plan speaks for itself.
Bush did what had to be done and there were no viable alternatives. Fantasies don't count as viable alternatives. We would have been just as successful trying to Pray him away. And what would have been the outcome if, by some miracle, we succeeded? Chemical Ali as a new dictator with the weapons in place?
Fortuately we have a brilliant team in power which has done a marvelous job in destroying our enemies because it avoided bird-brained schemes. Few military efforts in all of history have been as successful, as those who have knowledge of such matters understand. Unfortunately the RATmedia has convinced far too many nitwits that we have lost.