The first gulf war was necessary, the second was absolutely made on lies from bush 2 administration..
Nonsense, we entered into the second because Saddam Hussein never did live up to the agreement he made in the cease fire of 1991.
One of the requirements was to account for and return some 900 abducted Kuwaitis, as well as return Iranian POWs from the Iran-Iraq War. He didn’t return them because over the years following that conflict he murdered so many of these prisoners in cold blood and want to keep these torture and mass murders secret.
Iraq was also obligated to return POWs from the Iraq-Iran War. It didn’t fully comply with that, either, nor with ay Geneva Conventions requirements regarding them or their remains.
The agreements made after the 1st Gulf War were violated every which way by Iraq from the outset.
One of the requirements during the cease fire period between conflicts was to permit inspectors to observe all destruction processes of equipment and precursor chemicals and materials so this destruction could be confirmed and a resumption of fighting not be necessary. Iraq only partially complied because it wanted to prevent any reasonable evaluation of what it did or did not have.
So yes, the Iraq war was necessary to force compliance- you cannot allow defeated opponents to turn around and defeat you on the world stage by openly defying the terms any more than we as a society can allow corrupt government officials in the FBI to flagrantly violate the law...all you’ll do is encourage more and worse misbehavior.
What we did wrong in Iraq was in 1992 was to fail to prepare for the possibility that there would be no second term for Bush and thus have a plan prepared in case Clinton were elected and he would not make any serious effort to enforce the treaty. Sure enough he did get elected and sure enough he wasn’t serious. Three years after the bombmaker of the 1993 world trade center bombing fled to a retirement villa in Iraq, Clinton finally conducted one half assed effort to conduct a coup but managed to get the resistance leaders killed. Then just allowed Saddam to flip him the bird for the remaining years until Monica finally stirred Bill to go ahead with Op Desert Fox and Zarqawi founded the precursor to ISIS in Baghdad [Zarqawi helped plan the half of the 1999 Millennium Plot where a Jordanian hotel used by westerners and US personnel enforcing sanctions on Iraq was to be bombed and a simultaneous bomb was to be set off at LAX airport on New Year’s Eve]. When the USS Cole was bombed in the Port of Aden on the way to enforce sanctions on Iraq in Oct 2000, Clinton just waited out the clock.