#1. Saddam is not a good Muslim.

#2. Saddam is secularist in the extreme.

#3. A secularist Muslim is STILL far preferable to a military base of infidels draining the oil that Allah has given the faithful.

On the other hand, terrorist attacks will not have any meaningful impact on our military capability over there.

On the other other hand, mommy and daddy are going to start getting pissed when little Johnny won't be marching home 'cause he was killed by a sniper when he was stationed over there. Eventually (years) enough mommies and daddies will have lost enough little Johnnys to demand an explanation of why we are still over there.

But that will be after the current regime has ended.