NO! If we would have taken him out when we were at his front door! IF we would have done the job right back in 1991 all of the crap that happened from 1991 through 2001 would have never happened. We could have avoided the mess we are in now.
Let me tell you what it takes to win a war.
A war is won or lost when the winner makes the loser lose something he did not intend on losing. That is why America cannot win wars, and has lost everyone since Nam. As long as the enemy has not lost something he did not intend on losing, he will fight. Think back to when Khaddafi came home and found his son blown all over the neighborhood. He did not intend on losing his son. The same thing hapend to Don Corleone [It is not fiction]. At that point he lost and we won. In the 1991 Saddam did not lose anything that he did not intend on losing. We are fighting an enemy who does not care if he dies [kind of like the kamakazi pilots]. Kamakazi pilts were not afraid that we might shoot them out of the sky. However, the Japanese never expect to lose the 2nd and 3rd largest cities, and when they did ... they lost.
The only way to WIN this war is to wipe out the enemy, because that is the only way he will consider himself a loser. You have to take him there. But we won't. We are going to throw a crap load of US Dollars and young men at the problem for the next 40 years.
Saddam did not intend on losing his beloved renegade province.
He also thought we’d leave him alone.
Hindsight is 20/20 & at the time, our CiC, most of his advisers & most of the leaders of the free world were still in a Cold War mentality. You don't think there would have been any insurgency & reconstruction with Iran messing with us at the end of Desert Storm with the Hussein government toppled?