[Master Belisarius]

The human life is cheap, very cheap. And more when we consider the death of people in the context of relations between countries.

I'm old enough, to remember the times when Saddam was the paladin of the western democracies, fighting against the evil Iran. He was the front line of occident against the evil Ayatollah Homeini!
During these times, occident was not worried about the use of chemical weapons against the soldiers or civilians of Iran or against the Kurds... and in fact, Saddam was helped by USA and other western countries.
Also, after the first GW1 occident had the opportunity to demote Saddam, but finally was decided to let him continue, because he was considered the lesser evil... and because this, he was able to kill more Kurds and Shiites and more people of the opposition.
At the end, the people that Saddam killed during more aprox 25 years, was considered by occident as "collateral damage".

Then, why use the argument that Saddam killed more people during his government than this War, when for action or for omission, occident was his accomplice?
I can't accept that the current "collateral damage" was needed to fix the previous "collateral damage".