Animals do not apply to the Geneva Convention..... they aren't POWs, they do not apply. Now, I'd be pretty sure they are getting much better treatment than they deserve, anyway, considering there are no reports of rusty nails driven into their eyeballs. Why do you care so much about AlQueda's well being? On the other hand, Saddam has a long history of breaking the Geneva Convention (chemical weapons against the Kurds), his cease fire agreement from Desert Storm (total and complete surrender of all information of chem-bio programs), and he gave the world the bird. Now, let's say we never get him (I still don't understand why you people have a problem with what we did). What's to say that in the future he doesn't fire a nuke or let off a chem-bio attack? Mabe he never bothers anyone again. Mabe he just says "I'm tired of playing games with the U.S. and the U.N. I'll just call it a day and retire". You can't live in a world of mabe's, hopes, and dreams. Saddam was just as mad as Osama. Just as mad as Hitler. Also, take this into consideration.... FDR was closer to going to war without Pearl Harbor than everyone thinks. In retrospect it was inevidable. Even if we had never been attacked, there was growing concern that Hitler had to be stopped and we were the only ones who could do it. So tell me, who here would criticise FDR for invading Germany or Japan without provocation?