Okay, the troops go in with all guns blazing. The Iraqi military take a pounding in only a few days. Hussein reads the reports, looks at the numbers, and, being the courageous principled man that he is, hops on a jet and runs like a scared rabbit to safety in another country. (And while I have no idea which country that might be, let’s not kid ourselves that no one will take him. He might also go underground, but I have a hunch he wouldn’t.)
What then?
Do we give whatever nation has given him sanctuary a deadline, and then send in the special forces when the deadline expires?
Do we let him alone, content to have driven him from power in Iraq?
This seems to me a plausible, even likely, scenario. So what plans, if any, do we have if Saddam flees Iraq and successfully finds sanctuary somewhere else?