Let's face it, capture of Saddam doesn't change anything

[CMT]

except it gives Bush a short lived propaganda victory. It doesn't change the fact that the US is bogged down in Iraq and lives are being lost. That $88 billion or more is being spent per year to keep our troops there and rebuild the country. It doesn't change that fact that the US is hated by many there and Saddam's capture will probably lead to more, not less, violence. It doesn't change the fact that the US government lied to us and the world to go to war. It doesn't change the fact that no WMD have been found (the reason the administration gave for the war, not to liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam). It doesn't change the fact that the US "war on terrorism" was sidetracked due to the Bush family vendetta against Saddam and that Bin-Ladden has yet to be found.

I don't see this changing anything regarding the 2004 presidential election either. It doesn't change the fact that the war was unwise and international pressure would have accomplished the downfall of Saddam eventually and that our troops are still sitting ducks in a unstable country. It doesn't change the fact that the good will the US had in the world after 9/11 and in Afghanistan evaporated due to Bush pushing a war which actually took the focus off the real war on terrorism.

Bush will probably get a bounce but I think it will be very short-lived--as short-lived as his "Mission Accomplished" appearance on the USS Lincoln.