Letters to the Editor
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The good old days
As other posters have pointed out, this is basically, "Gee all we need is a new Saddham to clean things up." Saddham was secular, he did unite the country and was friendly with the U.S., for at least awhile anyways. Based on far gone the country has become, it is not surprising to hear people wishing for the "good" old days of Saddham.
Higher education, employment, growth, stability, and security(only Saddham to be fearful of, not The U.S., untold number of sects, criminals, Al Queda, foreign fighters, etc) under dictatorship is better than rampant violence, decay, disease, instability, poverty, and unemployment, under the blood-enraged hand of basically out of control anarchy.
The biggest fly in the soup to any possible solution in Iraq; the U.S. occupying force. We can support Iraq indirectly as we did with Saddham in the beginning, but an occupying force will not save or even help save Iraq.