Hillary Clinton, the smartest woman alive (/s), stood up back then and proclaimed, “Saddam Hussein MUST GO!!!” She was apparently OK with the original war effort. Maybe she could help him understand why we went over there? /s
Saddam asks head of nuclear program how things are going on the nuke?
Nuke program head tells him they are nowhere near having a nuclear weapon.
Saddam has him shot.
A few months later Saddam asks the new head of the nuke program how things are progressing?
Not wanting to be shot, the fellow responds, we're almost there, knowing full well they aren't.
British, and or other intel get's wind of this.
The story that Saddam has a nuke almost ready scares the bejezzers out of western leaders.
Bush, Hillary and most of the crowd run with the notion Saddam is almost ready to nuke us, so we'd better do something about it.
Saddam gets wind of it, and sends the entire nuke program to Libya.
He also sends the chemical weapons to Syria.
Funny how wars get started and the strange bedfellows they make. (The enemy of my enemy is my friend).