Then why did it take a ground invasion and occupation to take care of Saddam Hussein's WMDs?
Personally I like W. Bush but I always felt some of that was because Hussein had tried to assassinate his Dad. Can’t say I’d to it differently in a similar circumstance.
Totally different strategy They wanted to “nation build” Iraq into a civilized peaceful modern society , etc. (We will never know if that’s even possible now that weve absndoned the effort, but if it can be done with a muslim country it sure looks like it would be a more lengthy and expensive proposition than most of us would willingly undertake ). Insofar as sadam’s military threat went, that we effectively eliminated in short order ( and it could have been even shorter had we used Air Force more and ground forces less). There’s no need to repeat the past anyway, just eliminate the Dangerous weapons that could really hurt us — five iranian Islsmonazi nukes could easily kill fifty million Americans — as they’ve repeatedly threatened - eliminate their nukes and new long range ICBMs etc. And let them clean up the rubble.