[TigersEye]

As for the reasons to go to war against Iraq/Saddam, I think there were a few more than you suggest.

Reasons we might have gone to war with Iraq.

• 1. Iraqi provocation of American planes patrolling the no-fly zone. "More than 42,000 sorties were flown during that time. Iraqi surface-to-air missiles and other anti-aircraft systems targeted ONW aircrews on nearly every flight." (That sounds like 42,000 reasons to me but I'll only count it as one.)
• 2. Saddam defied 17 UN resolutions that were a result of his losing the war. (again, that should count as 17 reasons.)
• 3. Saddam tried to assassinate a former U.S. President.
• 4. Saddam was killing the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq that we had promised protection.
• 5. Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
• 6. Iraq's biological weapons program.
• 7. Iraq's chemical weapons program.
• 8. Saddam's extensive cooperation with terrorists.

This probably doesn't count but... the 250,000 to 290,000 people Saddam had killed

[unclebankster]

As for the reasons to go to war against Iraq/Saddam, I think there were a few more than you suggest.
Reasons we might have gone to war with Iraq.

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We went to war with with Iraq because of the post 9/11 “war on terror” campaign & the hysteria and massive amounts of propaganda that pushed the war. I thought the Bush administration, the Congress, and the populace who supported the invasion had their “heads up their asses” with their reasoning.

However, “it’s water under the bridge” and doesn’t concern me at this time point in time.