U.S. Wants Saddam, But Dead - Not Alive

This is an article I read from ERIC MARGOLIS a Toronto Sun Foreign Correspondent. As it was discussed at Eyeranian before, there are many reasons why US does not want to capture Saddam alive. As Margolis puts it: "The Bush administration will be delighted not to put Saddam on public trial. Dead dictators tell no tales."

Some parts of the Article as why the US does not want him allive are below:

-The CIA's role in bringing the Ba'ath Party to power in a 1958 coup, opening the way for Saddam to take control.
-U.S., Israeli, and Iranian destabilization of Iraq during the 1970s by fueling Kurdish rebellion.
-Washington's egging on the aggressive shah of Iran in the Shatt al-Arab waterway dispute, a primary cause of the Iran-Iraq War.
-The U.S. secretly urging Iraq to invade Iran in 1980 to overthrow that nation's revolutionary Islamic government.
-Covert supply of Saddam's war machine by the U.S. and Britain during the eight-year Iran-Iraq conflict, plus biological warfare programs and germ feeder stocks, poison gas manufacturing plants and raw materials.
-Billions in aid, routed through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Italy's Banco del Lavoro and the shadowy BCCI. Heavy artillery, munitions, spare parts, trucks, field hospitals and electronics.
-Equally important, the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency and CIA operated offices in Baghdad that provided Iraq with satellite intelligence data on Iranian troop deployments that proved decisive in the war's titanic battles at Basra, Majnoon and Faw.

And especially this part:

The murky role played by Washington just before Iraq's 1991 invasion of Kuwait. The U.S. ambassador told Saddam "The U.S. takes no position in Arab border disputes." Was this a trap to lure Saddam to invade Kuwait, then crush his army, or simple diplomatic bungling? Saddam could supply the awkward answers.