text: to kill the snake, is it necessary to remove the head first? if that is true, why has iraq become the "bloodbath" that it is? well what would you have us do?  remove saddam and then just abandon them to let them kill each other.. like they are now.. wait a minute, what a great strategy for war!   i think we should have done that,  then all of you can criticize us that we created a civil war and left them all to die. so be it.