1. How can anybody argue that efforts to achieve regime change in Iraq are not justified? Saddam Hussein has no legitimacy as leader of the country, all the indications are that he has very little support from the general population and that he rules largely by terror. The Iraqis cannot get rid of him themselves, it is suicidal to try, their whole families are likely to be wiped out if they are caught plotting against him. They daren't even vote against him, that is why he got a near 99% vote in a recent election, assuming the election actually took place and the votes were counted. When they did rise up against him at the end of the Gulf War they were ruthlessly suppressed, the coalition forces didn't intervene to help them unfortunately (and shamefully).
2. There is no way he can be trusted and no way that UN inspections can be relied on to find his weapons facilities. Apart from anything else, it is well known that he has been building large underground bunkers and hiding his weapons building facilities in them, there have been no reports of these bunkers being found or searched. They are likely to be impossible to find unless spoil removal etc. has been spotted by satellite surveillance, which is unlikely.
3. It is evident in countless ways that he is a dictator in the same mould as Stalin or Hitler. His firing of all the oil wells in Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War is one of the lesser examples of his complete irresponsibility. His murder (by proxy) of his two sons in law and a large part of their families within days of their return to Iraq after they had defected, changed their minds and been granted a safe return, illustrates his ruthlessness and inhumanity. When one of his ministers suggested they should elect a new leader at a cabinet meeting, Saddam asked him to come to the next room with him then shot him dead. Baghdad is plastered with giant portraits and statues of him as hero in the style used by all crazed dictators.
4. He has been in power for an excessive period of time and has only succeeded in wrecking the lives of most of his people, it is time for him to go. There are reports that he is already looking for a safe haven where he can seek asylum, it should be made clear to him that if he doesn't find one that the rest of the world finds acceptable and go to it within a very short time (with the rest of his family and administration) he will face the same fate as Slobodan Milosovic, or worse. The Iraqi people (and the Iraqi army) should be repeatedly reminded of the fate of their sons and brothers in the Gulf War, ie. being buried alive in their dug-outs or massacred in the turkey shoot of their retreat, to remind them what Saddam's fantasising about heroic victories actually means. If the civilised world committed itself unequivocally to supporting the Iraqis in a rebellion instead of chickening out, as happened at the end of the Gulf War, his own people would almost certainly send Saddam packing and would derive a lot of satisfaction from their achievement. Hopefully, that is what Bush and Blair are trying to achieve. Unfortunately, the French, Germans, Russians and protesters are wrecking everything by giving him the hope of hanging on to power once more.
5. The anti-war protesters are only thinking of their own narrow interests, they think they are too far away to be threatened by Iraq, they don't give a damn about the fate of the Iraqis themselves (there has been ample documentation of the ways in which they are suffering under Saddam) or the threat of a nuclear war between Iraq and Israel. There is little doubt that Saddam aspires to be the leader of the Arabs and it is pretty certain that he would achieve that (if only momentarily) if he could bloody Israel's nose. It can't be guaranteed that he wouldn't try to do it if he had the means. (Of course, dealing with the problem of Israel is long overdue but a nuclear conflict to resolve it is in nobody's best interest, see PALESTINE etc.)
6. Would the protesters prefer to deal with Saddam when he has nuclear weapons or now when he hasn't?
7. The United Nations should have designed a standard Constitution suitable for newly liberated countries by now but I don't suppose it has. It ought to be quite easy to design and form some political parties, modelled on parties in other countries if necessary, to take part in elections and get proper democratic government under way. In the Middle East the main problem would no doubt be religion, the Mullahs would have to put their oar in. Some UN or other supervision might be necessary initially.
8. There will have to be a major investigation to find out exactly what Saddam Hussein has been getting up to and to locate, then safely dispose of, dangerous materials and equipment. Compensation should be given to Iraq for anything with any value that is removed.
9. It is pretty clear that a lot of the motivation for interference in Iraqi affairs is occasioned by the prospect of rich pickings from trade with the country, particularly in connection with it's oil of course. The United States, Russia, France and no doubt this country and others, are all jockeying for position; it is as though an opportunity for rape and pillage has been perceived. There seems to be a need for some form of restraint on the would be plunderers. Any new Iraqi government might be advised to seek aid from other Arab oil states to ensure that the country gets a proper return for the sale of it's oil.
10. The USA has exhausted most of it's own oil reserves, it shouldn't be allowed to exhaust everybody else's to maintain the extravagant, profligate lifestyle of it's population. For the time being it is probably in the whole world's interests to keep the US economy buoyant and hence it's oil thirst quenched but in the longer term the USA should be looking for other sources of energy, the rest of the world too.
11. Despite the above, Saddam Hussein, and the Arabs and Muslims in general, have a legitimate grievance against the rest of the world, particularly the rich Western Nations and especially the USA. This is due to their support for, acquiescence in, assistance with and encouragement of, the Jewish take-over of the Arab territory of Palestine. It is a heinous offence for Arab/Muslim Iraq to annexe a small neighbouring Arab/Muslim country which was only given a separate existence 100? years ago (Kuwait) but apparently, perfectly proper for the Jews to take back territory the Romans expelled them from almost two thousand years ago. The hypocrisy of the West beggars belief. Since the Arab/Muslim revenge attack on September 11th last year which led to the death of three thousand Americans, President Bush and the Jews have been ranting about waging war on terrorism yet they are responsible for displacing and wrecking the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs for a period of five decades. Ariel Sharon is the person largely responsible for the deaths of 17,000 residents of Beirut (most of them probably innocent civilians) when he led the bombardment of that city in ? , he is personally responsible for other massacres too yet the West allows him to claim he is waging war on terrorism, he is a terrorist himself. The Jews are determined to take over the whole of Palestine eventually. They believe they have a divine right to the country on account of a supposed "covenant" made between Abraham and their "God" back in the bronze age. The terms of this "covenant" were that this "God" undertook to protect the Jews, "His chosen people, favoured above and superior to all others", in Israel for as long as they continued to circumcise their boy babies on the eighth day of their lives. It appears that someone miscounted in Roman times and their "God" annulled the "covenant" and hadn't renewed it at the time of the Holocaust but the Jews still refuse to accept this. It is absurd to expect the rest of the world to accept this primitive, infantile lunacy. The propagation of pernicious conceits such as this should be forbidden in any civilised society. Of course, all, or at least most, religions have them. Nearly all assure their followers that they are the chosen and enlightened ones and everyone else is probably damned. Another specific example of the pernicious manipulation and then exploitation of people's beliefs for nefarious purposes is the persuasion of the Muslim suicide bombers that they will go straight to paradise when they blow themselves and their victims up. It is difficult to admire or respect their self-sacrifice in these circumstances.

For more detail on these topics see JUDAISM, THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE, PALESTINE VIOLENCE, TERROR